A City Pulls Together
How much more postmodern can you get than to get a town together to pay homage, pastiche, and parody one of the touchstones of the Impressionist movement?
Seurat, of course, was working against realism, and by extension, photo-realism, which is why I'd argue that this is parody--even if the parody is intending toward the honorific. Yet, I find the effort somehow admirable, in the way that Mann found the middle class to be worthy of esteem. There's something solid in the effort to recreate this. Humble and yet arrogant, both at once, with a solid dose of kitsch as well; don't you think?