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 Model oil


Model
Painting ID::  33973
Model
mk87 Front View 1887 Oil on panel 26x17cm Paris,Musee d'orsay
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte oil


Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Painting ID::  33975
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
mk87 1884-1886 Oil on canvas 206.4x305.4cm Chicago
mk87 1884-1886 Oil_on_canvas 206.4x305.4cm Chicago
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Bathers at Asnieres oil


Bathers at Asnieres
Painting ID::  33976
Bathers at Asnieres
mk87 c.1883/84 Oil on canvas 201x301.5cm London,National Gallery
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Port-en-Bessin,Les Grues et la Percee oil


Port-en-Bessin,Les Grues et la Percee
Painting ID::  34604
Port-en-Bessin,Les Grues et la Percee
mk94 1888
mk94 1888
   
   
     

Georges Seurat Etude pour Moyenne Distance,gauche,avec Bateau a Voile oil


Etude pour Moyenne Distance,gauche,avec Bateau a Voile
Painting ID::  34664
Etude pour Moyenne Distance,gauche,avec Bateau a Voile
mk94 1884-86
mk94 1884-86
   
   
     

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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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