Georges seurat

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Georges Seurat Dot…Dot…Dot…Dot… that’s what makes a Seurat a Seurat! Pointillism is what he is best know for. Look at our favorites of his and check … Read More

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At the time of Seurat’s death on March 29, 1891, this small painting was left in his studio at 39, passage de l’Élysée-des-Beaux-Arts, Paris. On May 3 of that year, Madeleine Knobloch (the artist’s mistress), Émile Seurat (the artist’s brother), the painters Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce, and the art critic Félix Fénéon gathered there to inventory the studio’s contents, and the works themselves were divided up among Seurat’s family and friends

Image is Copyrighted and Property of its respective owner About the ArtistGeorges Seurat was a French painter and the founding figure of Neo-Impressionism, a movement which dedicated itself to the scientific representation of light and color. Seurat left the Impressionist movement and developed his "Divisionist" technique in an attempt to bring formal structure to Impressionism. His goal was to demonstrate "optical mixture." He accomplished this by placing small dots of contrasting colors…

Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Le Cirque, 1890-91, oil on canvas, 186 x 152 cm, Musée d'Orsay The Circus

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