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 Die beiden Ufer oil


Die beiden Ufer
Painting ID::  90677
Die beiden Ufer
c. 1883(1883) Medium oil on panel Dimensions Deutsch: 15 x 24,8 cm cjr
   
   
     

Georges Seurat The Outer Harbor oil


The Outer Harbor
Painting ID::  90753
The Outer Harbor
1888(1888) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 21 3/8 x 26 1/4 in. (54.3 x 66.7 cm) cjr
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Die Rede von Grandcamp oil


Die Rede von Grandcamp
Painting ID::  90791
Die Rede von Grandcamp
1885(1885) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 65 x 81,2 cm cjr
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Frau mit Sonnenschirm oil


Frau mit Sonnenschirm
Painting ID::  91211
Frau mit Sonnenschirm
1884(1884) Medium oil on canvas cjr
1884(1884) _ Medium_oil_on_canvas _ cjr
   
   
     

Georges Seurat The river Seine at La Grande-Jatte oil


The river Seine at La Grande-Jatte
Painting ID::  91856
The river Seine at La Grande-Jatte
1888(1888) Medium oil on canvas cyf
1888(1888) _ Medium_oil_on_canvas _ 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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