Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat
Seurat in 1888
Born
Georges-Pierre Seurat

(1859-12-02)2 December 1859
Paris, France
Died29 March 1891(1891-03-29) (aged 31)
Paris, France
Known forPainting
Notable workA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Bathers at Asnières
List of paintings
MovementPost-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism
PartnerMadeleine Knobloch
Children2
Signature

Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: /ˈsɜːrɑː, -ə/ SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: /sʊˈrɑː/ suu-RAH,[1][2][3][4][5] French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa];[6] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.

Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind.[7] His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.[8]

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  7. ^ Fry, Roger Essay, 'The Dial', Camden, New Jersey, September 1926
  8. ^ "Art Institute of Chicago". Artic.edu. Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2014.

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