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two items I associate with the same period in time (end of the 19the century, beginning of the 20th century), put in a nice composition
From the base of the tower after we rode up to the top. There were really pretty white blinking lights on it, too that this photo doesn't really reveal.
By Robert Delaunay (1885-1941). With a particular fascination for geometric shapes and colours, Delaunay featured the Eiffel Tower in many of his works.
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 convered 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