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Painting · 1884–1886

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat · Art Institute of Chicago

Palette

• Hunter green #39583C · 26% · your word: Hunter green
• Olive green #ACAA68 · 19% · your word: Khaki
• Eggplant #5F5169 · 16% · your word: Plum
• Ash #AFB6B4 · 14% · your word: Ash
• Onyx #3D3D3D · 13% · your word: Gunmetal
• Café au lait #9E7F6E · 13% · your word: Taupe

Seurat built the picture from small touches of unmixed color, trusting the eye to blend them from a distance (optical-mixing), after the color theories of Chevreul. Some of his zinc yellow has since darkened to an ochre-brown, so the sunlit grass was once brighter; in 2004 color scientist Roy Berns rebuilt its original look digitally. The border of red, orange and blue dots was added in 1888–89.

Image

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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