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Bonnard, Pierre
Gauguin, Paul
Vuillard, Edouard
Martin, Henri
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Richard Earl
Cassatt, Mary
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Singley, Greg
Title, Christian
Horning, Elizabeth
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Duncan, Robert
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Georges
Seurat
Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Seurat,
Georges
36 in. x 24 in.
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Georges Seurat Biography
Dec. 2, 1859, Paris
- March 29, 1891, Paris
Painter, founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism
whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes
of contrasting colours became known as Pointillism. Using this techique,
he created huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour
too small to be distinguished when looking at the entire work but
making his paintings shimmer with brilliance. Works in this style
include Une Baignade (1883-84) and Un dimanche après-midi à
l'Ile de la Grande Jatte (1884-86).
A French painter who
was a leader in the neo-impressionist movement of the late 19th century,
Georges Seurat is the ultimate example of the artist as scientist.
He spent his life studying color theories and the effects of different
linear structures. His 500 drawings alone establish Seurat as a great
master, but he will be remembered for his technique called pointillism,
or divisionism, which uses small dots or strokes of contrasting color
to create subtle changes in form.
Georges-Pierre Seurat
was born on Dec. 2, 1859, in Paris. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
in 1878 and 1879. His teacher was a disciple of Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres. Young Seurat was strongly influenced by Rembrandt and Francisco
de Goya.
After a year of military
service at Brest, Seurat exhibited his drawing Aman-Jean at the official
Salon in 1883. Panels from his painting Bathing at Asnieres were refused
by the Salon the next year, so Seurat and several other artists founded
the Societe des Artistes Independants. His famous canvas Sunday Afternoon
on the Island of the Grande Jatte was the centerpiece of an exhibition
in 1886. By then Seurat was spending his winters in Paris, drawing
and producing one large painting each year, and his summers on France's
northern coast. In his short life Seurat produced seven monumental
paintings, 60 smaller ones, drawings, and sketchbooks. He kept his
private life very secret, and not until his sudden death in Paris
on March 29, 1891, did his friends learn of his mistress, who was
the model for his painting Young Woman Holding a Powder Puff.
Courtesy Web Museum
Paris
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