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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.
Georges Seurat is the pioneer of technique of painting in softly flickering, small dots or strokes of color, called Pointillism.
Bathers at Asnières, 1884, oil on canvas, 201 × 301 cm, National Gallery, London. He spent 1883 working on his first major painting – a large canvas titled Bathers at Asnières, [16] a monumental work showing young men relaxing by the Seine in a working-class suburb of Paris. [17]
May 14, 2024 · Georges Seurat was a painter and founder of the 19th-century school of Neo-Impressionism whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colors became known as Pointillism. Using this technique, he created huge compositions, including A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86).
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 is considered one of the most important Post-Impressionist painters. He moved away from the apparent spontaneity and rapidity of Impressionism and developed a structured, more monumental art to depict modern urban life.
Pointillism is a technique of painting in which the artist paints by applying thousands of tiny dots, or points, of colour. Altogether, the side-by-side coloured dots mix in the viewer’s eyes...
