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 The reconstruction of famous paintings with actors is an important Transmedia exercise. A great diversity of video and photographic projects, carried out over time, attracted attention. Among the most recent initiatives of this kind is that of the photographer Mark Preuschl who made in Wisconsin, USA, a modern recreation of Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.  The photographer chose to use modern clothing for his characters, but the composition of the frame was careful not only by positioning the people (and accessories) in the pictorial field, but (especially) by matching the light and shadows. Thus, the performance goes beyond the simple stage of technical curiosity and translation of a subject from one medium to another and constitutes an additional element of analysis and reference for the masterpiece of pointist painting. The effects of light and shadow, their pictorial capture, was the central element of Impressionism and of the immedia...

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