'La Grande Jatte' by Georges Seurat is an example of the popular theme of leisure and pleasure dominant in the art of the 1870s. According to T.J Clarke, "within this context of the seemingly repectable place, women have been and will be corrupted by men, and innocence will be kept ot lost."
Seurat's strict geometric treatment of form has reduced them to mannequins, denying them character or individuality. The bourgeoisie are as trapped as their rigid social conventions as the workers are oppressed by the solid band of industrial buildings.
The very science of his colors, the precision of his outlines, the fixity of each figure within its own boundaries and hence social space, provided a pictorial language which viewers recognized. It articulated the modernness of the scene in a way that was not anecdotal nor humorously ironic, but insistently formal - like the modern life itself was turning out to be!
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