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Georges Seurat
The Harness Carriage
mk106
about 1883
33x41cm
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Georges Seurat
The small Peasant sat on the lawn of the Pasture
mk106
1882
65x81cm
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Georges Seurat
The Samll Peasant in blue
mk106
about 1882
46x38cm
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Georges Seurat
Impresstion Figure
mk106
about 1883
15x24cm
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Georges Seurat
The Countrywoman in the work
mk106
1882-1883
38.5x46.2cm
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Georges Seurat
Spring
mk106
about 1884
25x16cm
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Georges Seurat
The Peasant Hoe Soil
mk106
1882
16.3x56cm
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Georges Seurat
The Countrywoman sat on the Lawn
mk106
1882
38x45.7cm
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Georges Seurat
Suburb
mk106
about 1883
32.2x41cm
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Georges Seurat
The Worker Break up the Stone
mk106
about 1884
16x25.2cm
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Georges Seurat
Impresstion Figure
mk106
about 1882
78x63cm
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Georges Seurat
Fisherman
mk106
about 1883
15.7x24.4cm
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Georges Seurat
Two Sides of the river
mk105
1883
15.9x24.8cm
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Georges Seurat
Underwater Horse
mk106
about 1883
15x24.7cm
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Georges Seurat
The Person is Sitting or Lying and black horse
mk106
1883
16x25cm
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Georges Seurat
The Person sat on the Lawn
mk106
1884-1885
15.5x24.9cm
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Georges Seurat
Bathers
mk106
1883
15.3x24.5cm
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Georges Seurat
The Youngster Wearing hat sat on the Lawn
mk106
1883-1884
24x30cm
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Georges Seurat
The seated Teenager
mk106
1883-1884
31.7x24.7cm
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Georges Seurat
Bathers of Asnieres
mk106
1883-1884
200x300cm
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| Georges Seurat
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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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