Georges Seurat worked on the painting A Sunday Afternoon for two years, working very hard on the landscape of the park. He worked on numerous drawings and oil sketches by sitting in the park, creating numerous sketches of the various figures in order to have it perfect before he came to his final painting. He concentrated on the issues of light, color and form. The painting is approximately 7 by 10 feet size. Seurat was interested in optical and color theories, Seurat put together very small dots of colors that when unified optically in the human eye were seen as a single shade or hue. He believed that this form of painting, would make the colors more powerful than standard brush strokes. To make the experience of the painting even more vivid, he surrounded it with a frame of painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a white, wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago. The argument that Seurat is making is to enjoy the day in the park. He paints a beautiful painting of people enjoying the day at the park. It supports the social order by people going to the park. I feel like the target audience is every one, I feel like Seurat wants to summarize the idea of the times that we’ve all had the park or lake enjoying the day with family or friends. A Sunday Afternoon has conventionalized images by the people in the painting which takes place in the late 1880s. The painting make use of visual metaphors by showing different people from different backgrounds at the park.
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