Georges-Pierre Seurat (French: 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman.
He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. 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.
| Georges Seurat | |
|---|---|
 Georges Seurat, 1888 | |
| Birth name | Georges Pierre Seurat |
| Born | 2 December 1859 Paris, France |
| Died | 29 March 1891 (aged 31) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Field | Painting |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism, Neo-impressionism, Pointillism |
| Works | Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte |
When you view from a distance your eye blends the dots together, this is called optical blending. You can see this in Seurat’s painting The Eiffel Tower (pictured on the right). When you look at it, it looks orange, but really he only used tiny dots of red and yellow which your eyes blend to make the color orange. Instead of mixing the paint himself, he is making your eye do all the work!
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