A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

In a landscape reminiscent of the places of Impressionism (the banks of the Seine), Georges Seurat places characters with the unreal appearance of puppets. No naturalism in this scene: it is an idealized view of reality. Seurat sets himself apart from Impressionism to reconnect with an imaginary world with Arcadian tones. In some ways, he follows the example of his elder brother, the Symbolist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, whose talent he admired.