Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891)
Nationality: French
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Seurat acquired the role of the founder of Neoimpressionism because his work embraced the landscape and Parisian scenes of impressionism but contained other symbolic influences. For example, his paintings explore light and color thoroughly, but his figures contain references to Egyptian art. Seurat is also credited with the development of Divisionism, which unlike Pointillism used small dots of paint of the tip of a brush to create color separations, rather than merging them together. This technique is seen in his most famous painting, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte. Seurat was trained by Henri Lehmann, who in turn, studied under his idol, Ingres. His first work, conte crayon drawings of painter, Aman-Jean were displayed in 1883, followed by his first painting exhibition in 1884. Seurat’s career ended suddenly by his untimely death at the age of 32. The French Post-Impressionist painter Seurat was born and died in Paris. His main achievement was the development of Pointillism, a system of painting by applying colors in dots of relatively uniform size. He painted a few very large paintings, spending a year or more on each of them after he had completed an endless series of preliminary studies. Two of his famous large-scale compositions are -The Bathers - of 1883-84, with the Impressionist characteristics of brilliant colors and the effects of intense sunlight, and - The Side Show - (La Parade) of 1887-88. He believed that the tiny dots of color would merge in the viewer's eye and produce intermediary tints more luminous than those obtainable from pigments mixed on the palette. The synthetic, austere character of his pictures resulted from his reaction to Impressionism. He wanted to keep the vitality of Impressionism, stay with its subject matter and use of color and luminosity. But he also sought an architectonic precision, and an art of harmony through geometrizing form and the studied control of color and composition. Little is known about him privately; he kept largely to himself and worked incessantly.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Musee d'Orsay: Theo van Gogh : art-dealer, collector, Vincent's brother
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Saint Louis Art Museum: Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard
Van Gogh actively participated in discussing and debating new ideas, which ultimately became the shape and substance of modern art in Europe. He identified these artists as the painters of the petit boulevard, a term that reflected their desire...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection
The Cohen collection represents several artists in depth; thus, the exhibition features a varied range of work by such masters as Couture, Gericault, Daubigny, ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac
Flourishing from 1886 to 1906, the artists who worked in this avant-garde style came to be called Neo-Impressionists. The term was coined by art critic Félix F...
National Gallery: Light
The first section, Symbolic Light, contains works in which light takes on a metaphorical meaning, such as the Gallery’s 'Adoration of the Shepherds' by Rembrandt and the rarely seen 'After the Deluge; the Forty-First Day' by G. F. Watts (Guildfor...
Thomas Dane: Translations - Creative Copying and Originality
The idea that artists create autonomously is a great myth. The exhibition shows how artists have always been attracted by the works of their predecessors and contemporaries and how they have explored the creative potential of copying for their own...
Van Gogh Museum: Paul Signac: Marter of Pointilism
Often wrongly considered to be a mere follower of the better known Georges Seurat, the exhibition follows the course of his varied career from his earliest works in an Impressionist style, through the Neo-Impressionist phase ...
Louvre Museum: From Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art
Exhibition curators : Arlette Sérullaz, curator at the Department of Graphic Arts, at the Louvre, assigned to the Musée Delacroix Dalila Orfali, director of the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts The restoration of the works was supervised by Nathali...
SCENE Metrospace: Cir*cus/Car*ni*val
Stern sates about her work, "I play God(dess), attributing characteristics to my medium and by being consistent within one piece, I aim to convince the audience of their validity. In some instances, I find, recreate, and reinforce the parallels ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Signac 1863-1935: Master Neo-Impressionist
Often viewed as the second man of Neo-Impressionism, Paul Signac (1863-1935) has long been considered an artist of talent in the shadow of the more celebrated ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Draftsman's Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The Draftsman's Art spans the 15th to the 19th centuries with drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, William ...
Frick Collection: The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The exhibition is accompanied by a presentation organized by The Frick Collection and offered at this venue only. Generously on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland from December 5, 2000 through January 21, 2001, is one of its most popul...
National Gallery: Encounters: NEW art from OLD
The National Gallery has always been a resource for artists, and the Collection offers many examples of how artists in other times have wrestled with traditi...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum, stated: For six months out of each year, this extraordinary loan signi...
Van Gogh Museum: Jean-François Millet: Drawings
Millet was a talented draughtsman. Although he employed an academic technique, in a certain sense one can say he reinvented it: by depicting his models in their natural surroundings, by scrupulously reproducing the effects of light, and by care...
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios: Bathers: Gary Coyle, A K Dolven, Justine Pearsall, Michael John Whelan
Nonetheless, the trope has become a well established point of reference for contemporary artists many of whom have produced memorable variations on the theme as for instance the staged photographic portraits by Rineke Dijkstra, whose adolescent ...
College Art Asociation: Conference to Feature Interviews with Ann Hamilton and Ed Paschke
Internationally renowned installation artist Ann Hamilton has made numerous installations in North America and Europe and represented the Unites States at the 1997 Venice Biennale. She holds a Master of Fine Art in sculpture from Yale University...
Phillips Collection: Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts September 23 through January 21, 2001 FUTURE . . . Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Fe
By integrating works from The Phillips Collection into the Tannahill exhibition, Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Detroit Institute of Arts highlights the similarities and the differ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Passionate and Obstinate: The Lois Orswell Collection
Passionate and Obstinate (the phrase is Orswell’s self-description) will feature works from the Lois Orswell Collection as a cohesive group for the first time. Orswell was a distinctive collector whose methods were unlike those of her contemporari...
Kimbell Art Museum: Gauguin and Impressionism
The exhibition and its scholarly catalogue deal with the full range of the artist’s participation in the Impressionist movement: the paintings he submitted to the Impressionist exhibitions, the ways in which his extensive private collection inspi...

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