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Georges Seurat | Biography, Art, Paintings, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pointillism, & Facts
Georges Seurat (born December 2, 1859, Paris, France—died March 29, 1891, Paris) was a painter and founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colors became known as Pointillism.
Georges seurat biography brevena
Using this technique, he created huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure color too small to be distinguished when looking at the entire work but making his paintings shimmer with brilliance. Works in this style include Une Baignade, Asnières (1883–84; Bathers at Asnières) and A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86).
Georges was the son of Antoine-Chrisostôme Seurat, a 44-year-old property owner, originally from Champagne, and Ernestine Faivre, a Parisienne.
His father, a singular personality who had been a bailiff, spent most of his time in Le Raincy, where he owned a cottage wi