Learning on ScreenUtopia: Orange, Green and Purple
- Synopsis
- Discusses Georges Seurat’s ‘A Sunday on La Grande Fayette 1884’ (1886) in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. The painting caused a scandal when exhitited in 1886 - the landscape is treated in the classical manner but the characters are alienated from each other. A multitude of small dots create an astonishing light. Seurat worked his palette according to an elaborate theory of colour, and the many facets of this technique have influenced later generations.
- Series
- Palettes, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Video
- Year of production
- 1989
- Notes
- Combined on one DVD with 2 other 30-minute programmes from the Palettes series on Toulouse Lautrec and Vuillard, entitled AFTER IMPRESSIONISM
Series reviewed by Don Harker in ‘Times Higher Education Supplement’ (3 Apr 1996), p21. - Subjects
- Art
- Keywords
- France; painters; paintings; paintings - impressionist paintings; Seurat, Georges (1859-1891)
Credits
- Director
- Alain Jaubert
- Cast
Anthony Jackson
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0 PAL
- Price
- £19.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Year
- 2012
Sponsor
- Name
CNRS Audiovisuel
- Phone
- 45 07 56 86
- Fax
- 45 07 69 00
- Address
- 92195 Meudon Cedex
FRANCE
- Name
Delta Image
- Name
France
- Name
Sept Vidéo, La
- Address
- France
Distributor
- Name
Quantum Leap
- Notes
- The company ceased trading in 2018. It was previously a distributor and online retailer specialising in non-fiction DVD titles on a wide variety of subjects, particularly in the areas of music instruction, music performance, sport instruction, and health. Some titles also available through retail outlets.
Available from retail outlets
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