{"id":427144,"date":"2026-02-15T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427144\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:34:08","slug":"how-seurat-found-peace-by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427144\/","title":{"rendered":"How Seurat found peace by the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">After working all winter on large canvases such as La Grande Jatte\ufeff, Seurat would cleanse his eyes of the studio, he wrote, \u201cto translate as accurately as possible the bright light\u201d of the coast. For five summers, he took the train from Paris to small ports, prosaic and contained compared \ufeffwith Monet\u2019s wide-open shores. And what he sought is immediately apparent at the Courtauld: visions of marine light, clear, reflective or opalescent, pale at midday, golden in the afternoon, suffused with pink or hazy grey at dusk. In some of the sketches, light does away with the divisions between sea and air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After working all winter on large canvases such as La Grande Jatte\ufeff, Seurat would cleanse his eyes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1897,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-427144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}