To show there’s more to this blog than politics, economics, and Lightwater, each week I’ll preview a painting from a gallery in Britain. I’ll attach online articles about the painting that are, hopefully, not too heavy, but enough to boost in understanding of the artist’s intentions, for when you get a chance to see the painting. Without anymore ado, onto the first in the series:
Bathers at Asnières by Seurat, in the National Gallery, London. 
- Wikipedia‘s article on the painting
- How the ‘Bathers’ emerged a learned review by Aimee Brown Price
- Article on Pointillism and Seurat’s Bathers at Asnières
I first saw this painting in the Courtauld Institute of Art when it was located in Portman Square, and spent many a happy lunch hour sitting alone in the room in the gallery lost in the picture’s imagery. Note: Word of warning, I like Wikipedia, but it’s articles aren’t always correct. This one on the ‘Bathers’ says the picture has been in the National Gallery since 1961. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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