Georges Seurat
French painter (1859–1891) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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| Born | Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-12-02)2 December 1859 Paris, France |
| Died | 29 March 1891(1891-03-29) (aged 31) Paris, France |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Bathers at Asnières List of paintings |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism |
| Partner | Madeleine Knobloch |
| Children | 2 |
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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]