What picture is Cameron looking at in Ferris Bueller?
As Ferris and Sloane kiss in front of a stained-glass window, Cameron concentrates on George Seurat’s painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” Explaining the pointillist style — and moviemanking, teenage angst and adult insecurity — Hughes says, “I always thought this painting was sort of like …
What art museum is in Ferris Bueller?
the Art Institute of Chicago
Set to The Dream Academy’s cover of The Smiths’ “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want,” the scene filmed at the Art Institute of Chicago is undeniably odd, and not just because its three teenagers playing hooky by going to a museum.
Where is the Ferris Bueller art museum?
The museum scene (filmed at the Art Institute of Chicago) is such a beautiful tribute to the power of museums. Three impressionable high school kids are happily immersed in the museum experience, they soak it in and become supremely moved by the art. They are downright reverent.
What message does Ferris constantly give off throughout the movie about school and the principal?
The main theme of the movie – and also the answer to its appeal – is that high school kids get the better of the adults who are in authority, but it is also appealing to anyone who has ever felt like they are unable to get the better of those who are in charge of them.
Who painted the picture in Ferris Bueller?
Georges Seurat
But we do know a pointillist painter thanks to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It’s Georges Seurat, a.k.a. the French artist who created “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” which is the painting that Cameron looks deep—like, really deep—into at the Art Institute of Chicago.
What is the meaning of a Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is both the best-known and largest painting Georges Seurat ever created on a canvas. It depicts people relaxing in a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte, a popular retreat for the middle and upper class of Paris in the 19th century.