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Georges Seurat Port en Bessin, Sunday oil painting


Port en Bessin, Sunday
Painting ID::  3857 		Artist: Georges Seurat
Painting: Port en Bessin, Sunday
Introduction: 1888 Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges Seurat La Parade oil painting


La Parade
Painting ID::  3859 		Artist: Georges Seurat
Painting: La Parade
Introduction: 1888 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges Seurat Les Poseuses oil painting


Les Poseuses
Painting ID::  3860 		Artist: Georges Seurat
Painting: Les Poseuses
Introduction: 1886-88 The Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges Seurat Study for A Bathing Place at Asnieres oil painting


Study for A Bathing Place at Asnieres
Painting ID::  11563 		Artist: Georges Seurat
Painting: Study for A Bathing Place at Asnieres
Introduction: 1883 6'' x 9 3/4''(15.5 x 25 cm)Gift of Baroness Eva Gebhard-Gougaud,1965
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Georges Seurat Study for A Sunday on the Grande Jatte oil painting


Study for A Sunday on the Grande Jatte
Painting ID::  11564 		Artist: Georges Seurat
Painting: Study for A Sunday on the Grande Jatte
Introduction: 1884-1885 6'' x 9 3/4''(15.5 x 25 cm)Gift of Therese and Georges-Henri Riviere,1948
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     French Pointillist Painter, 1859-1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 ?C 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting Seurat took to heart the color theorists' notion of a scientific approach to painting. Seurat believed that a painter could use color to create harmony and emotion in art in the same way that a musician uses counterpoint and variation to create harmony in music. Seurat theorized that the scientific application of color was like any other natural law, and he was driven to prove this conjecture. He thought that the knowledge of perception and optical laws could be used to create a new language of art based on its own set of heuristics and he set out to show this language using lines, color intensity and color schema. Seurat called this language Chromoluminarism. His letter to Maurice Beaubourg in 1890 captures his feelings about the scientific approach to emotion and harmony. He says "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations". Seurat's theories can be summarized as follows: The emotion of gaiety can be achieved by the domination of luminous hues, by the predominance of warm colors, and by the use of lines directed upward. Calm is achieved through an equivalence/balance of the use of the light and the dark, by the balance of warm and cold colors, and by lines that are horizontal. Sadness is achieved by using dark and cold colors and by lines pointing downwards. . Related Artists to Georges Seurat : | Niccolo Bambini | Pierre Pater The Elder | HONTHORST, Gerrit van | Joseph Whiting Stock | Muenier, Jules-Alexis |

 

 

 
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