A Sunday on La Grande Jatte… with stickers! Created by Flickr member Xiaoyu. Click pic for source.

The MSPaint Masterpieces Series: Georges-Pierre Seurat – Sunday Afternoon on the Island…

Created by LiveJournal blogger Jamie Power:

“Seurat spent two years crafting his masterpiece, ‘Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’. He employed a revolutionary painting technique known as ‘pointillism’. Pointillism is pain-staking, requiring much skill and patience. But as you can see the mspaint ‘spray’ tool makes the technique totally obsolete.”

“(Actually, to be honest, this turned out a bit better than I expected. The spray tool is really balls, though.)”

Art collector Mari Shaw, with Stuart Netsky’s Grande Jatte. Source: Flickr

From an interview in Philadelphia City Paper with American artist Stuart Netsky:

His artwork similarly combines wild imagination and mind-boggling precision. In his “flicker” paintings he recreates masterpieces of modern art using thousands of large sequin-like reflectors usually found on highway billboards; his version of a detail from Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte shimmers in the breeze from an open window.

The photos show American art collector Mari Shaw in front of Stuart Netsky’s Grande Jatte. An interview with Mari is here. Below is another photo (on Flickr).

After Seurat by Jonthearchitect on DeviantArt. Click for source

Not much is known about this artwork or its author. It was created by a British traditional artist who publishes as Jonthearchitect on DeviantArt. This blue version of George Seurat’s ‘Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte‘ was made with spray paint and pigment liner, and measures 76cm x 50cm.

Sunday Afternoon at the Grand Dog Park on Etsy. Click for bigger

Dogs are popular among artists who revisit Seurat’s masterpiece. The image above, entitled Sunday Afternoon at the Grand Dog Park is the third one featuring canines. It was spotted on Etsy, and is part of a series of Doggone Famous Prints. In the artist’s own words:

From my Doggone Famous Group of Paintings. This signed print’s image area is roughly 7 x 14. The subject matter is loosely based on the work of Georges-Pierre Seurat.

View the work on Etsy

Previous entries with dogs:
Harry the Dirty Dog… and More Playful Puppy Stories
Dog Day Afternoon