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 Lighthouse at Honfleur oil


The Lighthouse at Honfleur
Painting ID::  54128
The Lighthouse at Honfleur
mk235 1886 Oil ncanvas 66.7x81.9cm
mk235 1886 Oil_ncanvas 66.7x81.9cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat The Harbour at Honfleur oil


The Harbour at Honfleur
Painting ID::  54130
The Harbour at Honfleur
mk235 1886 Oil onc anvas 79.5x63cm
mk235 1886 Oil_onc_anvas 79.5x63cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat The Honfleur oil


The Honfleur
Painting ID::  54131
The Honfleur
mk235 1886 Oil on canvas 53x63.5cm
mk235 1886 Oil_on_canvas 53x63.5cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Seated Female Nude oil


Seated Female Nude
Painting ID::  54157
Seated Female Nude
mk235 c.1886/87 Oil on panel 25.4x16.2cm
mk235 c.1886/87 Oil_on_panel 25.4x16.2cm
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Model Form Behind oil


Model Form Behind
Painting ID::  54158
Model Form Behind
mk235 Oil on panel 24.5x15.5cm
mk235 Oil_on_panel 24.5x15.5cm
   
   
     

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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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