Georges Seurat

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Georges Seurat

French painter

Written by Pierre Courthion

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Born:: December 2, 1859, Paris, France

Died:: March 29, 1891, Paris (aged 31)

Notable Works:: “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884”; “Bathers at Asnières”

Movement / Style:: Neo-Impressionism; Post-Impressionism; divisionism; pointillism

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Georges Seurat (born December 2, 1859, Paris, France—died March 29, 1891, Paris) was a painter and founder of the 19th-century French 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 with tiny, detached strokes of pure color too small to be distinguished when looking at the entire work but making his paintings shimmer with brilliance. Works in this style include Une Baignade, Asnières (1883–84) and A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86). Georges was the son of Antoine-Chrisostôme Seurat, a 44-year-old ...(100 of 1159 words)

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