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Georges Seurat
Bathers
mk106
1883
15.7x24.7cm
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Georges Seurat
Bathers of Asnieres
mk106
1883
15.5x25cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon
mk106
1884-1885
70.5x104cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon
mk106
1884-1885
15.5x25cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Landscape
mk106
1884
64.7x81.2cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon
mk106
1884-1885
15.9x25cm
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Georges Seurat
Walk with the Monkey
mk106
1884-1885
24.7x15.7cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon
mk106
1884-1885
16x25cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1885
81.4x65.2cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon
mk106
1886
225x340cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon
mk106
1886
340x225cm
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Georges Seurat
The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon
mk106
1884-1885
15.2x24.7cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1885
66x82.5cm
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Georges Seurat
The Sail boat
mk106
1885
65.1x81cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
about 1887
45.7x54.7cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1888
65x82cm
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Georges Seurat
The Post of Woman
mk106
1887
200x250cm
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Georges Seurat
The Post of Woman
mk106
1887
200x250cm
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Georges Seurat
The Post of Woman
mk106
1888
39.4x48.7cm
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Georges Seurat
A standing position of the Obverse
mk106
1887
26x17.2cm
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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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