The work was preceded by numerous oil studies executed with impressionist brushwork. From this time on Seurat concentrated on a small number of large paintings, epitomizing in their subjects the life-style of contemporary bourgeois Paris. The technique of pointillism Seurat employed here was adopted by a group of his followers, the neoimpressionists, and was extensively used in early 20th-century art. Seurat himself refined it in later paintings, using less naturalistic colors and shapes and a theory of aesthetic harmony based on line as well as color. Mark Roskill, Professor, History of Modern Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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