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The Forest at Pontaubert. Georges Seurat French. 1881. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825. Seurat spent two months in the late summer and early fall of 1881 in Pontaubert, a village southeast of Paris once frequented by Daubigny, Corot, and other Barbizon landscape painters.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat (French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism.
- French
- December 2, 1859
- Paris, France
- March 28, 1891
He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
Inspired by recently published research in optical and color theory, Georges Seurat distinguished his art from what the Impressionists considered a more intuitive painting approach by developing his own “scientific” style called Pointillism.
Seurat was only 31 when he died, yet he left behind an influential body of work, comprising seven monumental paintings, hundreds of drawings and sketches, and around 40 smaller-scale paintings and sketches.
- French
- December 2, 1859
- Paris, France
- March 29, 1891
One of the artist’s earliest works, it relates to pictures he made about 1880–81 that show single figures absorbed in thought or engaged in labor. The composition reveals his incipient talent for carefully calibrated light effects, bold silhouettes, and flat, geometric forms.
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Gray Weather, Grande Jatte. Georges Seurat French. ca. 1886–88. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 823. This view extends from the island of La Grande Jatte, framed by trees, to the red-roofed houses of the Paris suburb of either Asnières or Courbevoie across the Seine.
