Monday, February 2, 2026

What feels strange about the people in Seurat's painting 'Bathers at Asnières?'




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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.

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