"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande-Jatte" by George Seurat is one of the most important paintings in history as it inspired artists such as Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh and Alfred Sisley, as well as influencing the Cubist and Futurist movement. The work owes its name to what it depicts: the island of Grande-Jatte, on the Parisian Seine, on a Sunday afternoon. It is the iconography of the leisure time of the new bourgeois and industrial society at the end of the 19th century.
