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Georges Seurat
1841-1870
French Pointillist Painter and cofounder the Societe des Artistes Independants
Education: Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Cause of Death - diphtheria
Painter bio Description of His Style
Georges Seurat’s dazzling paintings demonstrate his mastery of capturing the effects of sunlight on the landscape. He created a charming scenes of serenity and harmony while stressing balance and clarity of outline. Seurat asserted "Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.”
His unique style of painting is characterized by a methodical and scientific technique known as pointillism or divisionism. Seurat juxtaposed small dots of pure color together to maximize luminosity. The dots appeared to intermingle and blend in the spectator's eye.
Georges Seurat Quotations
Great things are done by a series of small things
brought together. -- Georges Seurat
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision
peculiar to each artist. -- Georges Seurat
The see poetry in what I have done. No. i apply my methods, and that is
all there is to it. -- Georges Seurat
The Principal Pointillist Painters
Georges Seurat 1859-1891
Camille Pissarro 1830-1903
Henri Cross 1834-1917
Paul Signac French, 1863-1935
Maximilien Luce 1858-1941
Charles Angrand 1854-1926
Georges Lemmen 1865-1916
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