Georges Seurat

🌐 Primary Sources & Official Portals

• Art Institute of Chicago: Seurat Collection: https://www.artic.edu/artists/36605/georges-seurat
• A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27992/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884

Description

Georges Seurat (1859–1891) was a pioneering French Post-Impressionist painter who founded Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism. Seurat developed a scientific, systematic approach to painting based on color optics and divisionism, using tiny dots of complementary colors to create radiant visual fields (exemplified by ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte’).

Related Entities

• paul-signac
• michel-eugene-chevreul

Related Concepts

• pointillism
• optical-color-mixing
• divisionism

Mentions in Source

• “Seurat preferred to use the term Divisionism to describe his method, but the name Pointillism was coined by art critics in the late 1880s.” — A Brief History of Pointillism
• “The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the colour spots into a fuller range of tones.” — A Brief History of Pointillism