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I took this photo about a year ago when I was in Paris. I used a crappy analogue camera which costed only a few euros. I totally forgot about that camera untill I found it back a few weeks ago. I accidentally opened the camera because I thought there was no film in it. But I decided to develop the pictures because I was really curious. It caused a strange lightning on the picture, but I quite like it.
Week 2 The Eiffel Tower (1206 – 1210) 9/19 - 9/24/2021
ID 1208
Georges Seurat French, 1859-1891
Eiffel Tower 1889
Oil on panel
Seurat painted this view on the new, ultra-modern, highly controversial Eiffel Tower before it was completed in the summer of 1889, prior to the opening of the Universal Exposition. Without its crowning platform, the top of tower dissolves into the sky. In shading his color upward from reds and oranges at the base of the structure to a lighter palette dominated by yellow, Seurat seems to have followed the scheme of iridescent colors with which Gustave Eiffel covered the tower in a paint of his own invention, further irritating detractors who found the new monument a gross expression of industrial power and bad taste.
Seurat sided with those who saw the tower as an exciting symbol of modernity. His small painting projects a strong and solemn impact, larely due to its iconic treatment of the tower. Using the so-called neo-impressionist or pointillist technique that he had pioneered, Seurat bathes the scene in a soft but vivid light created by the optical interaction of small dots of birght color. His viewpoint is low, across a foreground balcony or wall that provides a sturdy base for the composition.
Museum purchase, William H. Noble Bequest Fund,
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1979.48
From the placard: San Francisco Legion of Honor Art Museum
Georges Seurat - Wikipedia
Georges Seurat - 173 artworks - painting (wikiart.org)
Biography of Georges Seurat, Father of Pointillism (thoughtco.com)
Docent Lecture: "Paris and Her Painters," Kay Payne | Legion of Honor (famsf.org)