YouTube description:
.......................
George Seurat's painting "Bathers at Asnières" is a simple picture of men and boys relaxing by the River Seine and yet there is something unsettling about this scene.
The people seem to be both present and absent — there and not there.
Art historian Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen explores Seurat's figures to explain how, by painting them in this way, he undid centuries-old beliefs about how people should appear in art.
.......................
No comments:
Post a Comment