(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — It is perhaps the most famous painting in the city of Chicago: Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” and it’s back on display at the Art Institute after three weeks on hiatus. And it has a new look.
Of course, the painting is the same. But Gloria Groom, the Art Institute’s chair of painting and sculpture of Europe, said everything around the painting is slightly different.
The color of the room. A new frame. And that makes the painting pop.
“We lowered it slightly. And I think the feeling of entering the painting is more palpable. Just a couple of inches, but it made a difference,” she explained Friday. “Because when we had it up in the conservation studio, we had it lowered, and it was like, ‘Whoa! This is so cool — you walk into it,’ which is what it’s all about.”
Groom said the stanchions have been removed so that visitors can get closer to check out the dots in the 7-foot-by-10-foot painting.
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