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GEORGES SEURAT
(1859-1891)
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GEORGES SEURAT (French Neo-Impressionist Painter)


Georges-Pierre Seurat was born December 2, 1859 in Paris, and began his art studies at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1878. His fascination was caught by Rembrandt and Francisco de Goya, both of whom influenced his work. Seurat was a leader in Neo-Impressionism, which traded the large brush strokes of the Impressionists for tiny dots or short strokes of paint that became known as pointillism or divisionism. Using small points of color allowed the artist to play with and vary colors within the subject, creating a subtle shift of textures and light. Seurat's interest was in finding new ways to use color and line to control texture in paintings. Although pointillism necessarily takes much longer than other painting techniques, Seurat managed to create more than 500 paintings and drawings before he died.

Seurat was a meticulous artist, and once he was established, only finished one large painting a year. At the time of his death, he had seven such canvases, as well as 60 smaller paintings. He wintered in Paris and spent his summers on the north coast of France, and was known as a very private person. He died in 1891, at the tender age of 31.

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