1886

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Genre painting · Pointillism

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

1886 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Seurat spent two years building this riverbank out of tiny dots of unmixed color, applying optical theory to a crowd standing oddly still.

★ 9.2

Genre painting · Woodblock

The Moon Through a Crumbling Window

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

1886 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Bodhidharma meditates before a broken lattice with the moon behind it. Yoshitoshi is reckoned the last great master of the woodblock print.

★ 5.9