A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 240

 The Art Institute of Chicago houses many works by Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist artists, including Georges Seurat. One of his most famous paintings, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," captures a serene afternoon at a park on the island of Grande Jatte, a small, elongated island near Paris. This painting was exhibited at the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in 1886 and is renowned for its use of pointillism, a technique in which many small dots of varying colors are applied to create an image.

 Seurat's masterpiece is composed of approximately 220,000 dots and is considered a foundational work in pointillism. Interestingly, modern digital images share a similar concept, with screens displaying millions of tiny pixels—such as the 1920 × 1080 resolution, which consists of over 2 million pixels.

 This iconic painting was purchased in 1924 by Frederic Clay Bartlett and his wife, trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago. The work captures a tranquil and lazy afternoon, with its interplay of light and shadow evoking the brilliance of the sun. Seurat carefully depicted people in various poses and activities, combining them seamlessly into the lush, green landscape of the park.

 Today, the island of Grande Jatte has a beautiful park where visitors can relax and enjoy the scenery, much like the idyllic setting Seurat immortalized in his painting.