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 The Landscape of Port en bessin oil


The Landscape of Port en bessin
Painting ID::  35875
The Landscape of Port en bessin
mk106 1888 Oil on canvas 67.4x81.5cm
mk106 1888 Oil_on_canvas 67.4x81.5cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat The Reflux of Port en bessin oil


The Reflux of Port en bessin
Painting ID::  35876
The Reflux of Port en bessin
mk106 1888 Oil on canvas 53.5x65.7cm
mk106 1888 Oil_on_canvas 53.5x65.7cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Impression Figure oil


Impression Figure
Painting ID::  35877
Impression Figure
mk106 1890 Oil on canvas 73x92cm
mk106 1890 Oil_on_canvas 73x92cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Impression Figure oil


Impression Figure
Painting ID::  35878
Impression Figure
mk106 1890 Oil on canvas 65.2x81.7cm
mk106 1890 Oil_on_canvas 65.2x81.7cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat The Flux of Port en bessin oil


The Flux of Port en bessin
Painting ID::  35879
The Flux of Port en bessin
mk106 1888 Oil on canvas 68x82cm
mk106 1888 Oil_on_canvas 68x82cm
   
   
     

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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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