compare la grande jatte to paul signac’s “in the time of harmony” (1895-96) which envisions a timeless, classless, universalist utopia replete with wholesome recreation, human interaction, family values and a clean rural setting. seurat negates this classical nostalgia for a past that never existed. he highlights the artifice and isolation of modern life.<\/p>\n
critic alfred paulet said: “the artist [seurat] has given his figures the automatic gestures of lead soldiers moving about on regimented squares. maids, clerks and troopers all move around with a similar slow, banal, identical step, which catches the character of the scene exactly…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
compare la grande jatte to paul signac’s “in the time of harmony” (1895-96) which envisions a timeless, classless, universalist utopia replete with wholesome recreation, human interaction, family values and a clean rural setting. seurat negates this classical nostalgia for a past that never existed. he highlights the artifice and isolation of modern life. critic alfred … Continue reading paul signac’s “in the time of harmony”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22141,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/22141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}