Art exhibition displays artwork with innovative use of aluminium cans

The "The Death of Impressionism? Disruption and Innovation in Art" exhibition at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown presents innovative art on aluminium soda cans.

Visitors to the exhibition are immediately confronted with Chris Jordan's re-imagining of "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," artist Georges Seurat's FAMOUS portrait of the Parisian middle class enjoying themselves on the banks of the Seine on a Sunday afternoon.

A Seattle artist Jordan, takes Seurat's innovative style of unmixed paint using colour dots ( known as pointillism) and converts those dots into tiny photographic collage elements  by using aluminium soda cans.

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Jordan's work is massive in size and captures the full impact of Seurat's original. In Jordan's art piece, the dots are turned into soda can and the image is composed of 106,000 aluminium cans. That’s the exact number of sodas consumed in the U.S. every 30 seconds.

It's an apt contemporary usage of unusual material in paintings that changed the direction and concept of art.  The original painting re-directed French avant-garde art when it was first shown around 1885 and currently it serves as the bridge to what this exhibition is trying to convey to the visitors.