Georges Seurat

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.
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Georges Seurat Two Stonebreakers oil


Two Stonebreakers
Painting ID::  74757 		Two Stonebreakers
English: "Two Stonebreakers (formerly called Deux Moissoneurs)", oil on panel, by the French painter Georges Seurat. 6 in. x 9 3/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Walter J. Kohler, B.A. 1925. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Date circa 1881 cyf
   
   
     
Georges Seurat Vache noire dans un Pre oil


Vache noire dans un Pre
Painting ID::  74758 		Vache noire dans un Pre
English: "Vache noire dans un Pre (Black Cow in a Meadow)," oil on panel, by the French artist Georges Seurat. 6 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Walter J. Kohler, B.A. 1925. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Date ca. 1881 cyf
   
   
     
Georges Seurat Le Pecheur oil


Le Pecheur
Painting ID::  74759 		Le Pecheur
English: "Le Pecheur (Riverman; Fisherman)," oil on panel, by the French artist Georges Seurat. 13 3/16 in. x 16 13/16 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Edith Malvina K. Wetmore. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Date circa 1884 cyf
   
   
     
Georges Seurat La Maria, Honfleur oil


La Maria, Honfleur
Painting ID::  80783 		La Maria, Honfleur
Date 1886(1886) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20.7 x 25 in) cjr
   
   
     
Georges Seurat Honfleur oil


Honfleur
Painting ID::  84978 		Honfleur
1886(1886) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20.7 x 25 in) cyf
   
   
     
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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.

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