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Podcast: The Art Angle
Episode: The Pleasures and Paradoxes of Seurat's Iconic 'Sunday Afternoon'
Description: In John Hughes's classic 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the cohort of truant teenagers make a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, and spend some time with the classic painting by George Seurat, titled Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. One one of the most famous artworks in the world even before that star turn, it has been studied and referenced and riffed on endlessly, and is in fact the subject of at least one musical, and a whole host of academic articles.Painted in 1884 when Seurat was just 27 years old in his...