Sketching from Seurat’s drawings
Seurat’s drawings … an “esthetic of silence” In her “Georges Seurat – The drawings,” the author Jodi Hauptman refers to Susan Sontag’s qualification of these drawings as expressing an “esthetic of silence” because of their “emptiness,” their “austerity” and “muteness,” that do not perceptually engage the onlooker, but for a dream like effect I elected to render …