Seurat, Georges
(b.
Dec. 2, 1859, Paris - d. 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 aprіs-midi а 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.
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