Georges Seurat, (born December 2, 1859, Paris, France—died 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.

Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: /ˈsɜːrɑː, -rʌ/ SUR-ah, -⁠uh, US: /sʊˈrɑː/ suu-RAH, French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism.

#1 The Starry Night The Starry Night is the most famous work of the most famous Post-Impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh.

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways? His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul.

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Artistic Training and Influences From 1878 to 1879, Seurat was enrolled at the famous École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he received training under artist Henri Lehmann. The Impressionists’ ways of conveying light and atmosphere influenced Seurat’s own thinking about painting.

Seurat prepared his great painting with meticulous care. He made 28 preparatory drawings. He also created 31 preparatory paintings, some of individual figures. Others were studies of groups of figures, and partial views of the scene.

For this reason, The Starry Night painting is often interpreted as having a hopeful message. Rendered in the artist’s characteristic, Post-Impressionist style, The Starry Night features short, painterly brushstrokes, an artificial color palette, and a focus on luminescence.

Post-Impressionism

• Georges-Pierre Seurat Evening, Honfleur 1886.
• Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night Saint Rémy, June 1889.
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge (1891-92)
• Paul Gauguin The Seed of the Areoi 1892.
• Édouard Vuillard Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist 1893.

The Post-Impressionists were dissatisfied with what they felt was the triviality of subject matter and the loss of structure in Impressionist paintings, though they did not agree on the way forward. Georges Seurat and his followers concerned themselves with pointillism, the systematic use of tiny dots of colour.

In the English-speaking world, Munch’s most famous work of art is known as The Scream. In Norwegian it is known as Skrik, literally meaning Shriek. But the original, German, name was Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature).

In the mid-1880s, Seurat developed a style of painting that came to be called Divisionism or Pointillism. Rather than blending colors together on his palette, he dabbed tiny strokes or “points” of pure color onto the canvas.

French artist Paul Gauguin remained unappreciated until after his death, but is now celebrated for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that became a feature of some Post-Impressionist works.

Pointillism was a revolutionary painting technique pioneered by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in Paris in the mid-1880s. It was a reaction against the prevailing movement of Impressionism, which was based on the subjective responses of individual artists.

Georges Seurat (1859-91) was a French painter who is best known for pioneering Pointillism , a neo-Impressionist technique in which countless tiny dots are applied to the canvas. His most famous works are his scenes of suburban leisure: Bathers at Asnières and A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

Seurat was also influenced by Sutter’s Phenomena of Vision (1880), in which he wrote that “the laws of harmony can be learned as one learns the laws of harmony and music”. Oct 22 2019

In the mid-1880s, Seurat developed a style of painting that came to be called Divisionism or Pointillism. Rather than blending colors together on his palette, he dabbed tiny strokes or “points” of pure color onto the canvas.