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Georges Seurat The Circus, The Circus, 1891, Mus??e d'Orsay Paris
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Georges Seurat Georges Seurat Technique Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions 65 X 81 cm (25.59 X 31.89 in)
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Georges Seurat parispromenad 1886
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Georges Seurat en eftermiddag pa la grande jatte 1884
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Georges Seurat en sommarsondag pa la grande jatte 1884/1886
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Georges Seurat fiskeflottan utanfor port 1888
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Georges Seurat ung kvinna som pudrar sig 1889/1890
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Georges Seurat Auf einer Wiese sitzender Knabe Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *65 ?? 81 cm
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Georges Seurat batbers at asnieres mk290 1883-84 oil on canvas 200x300cm national gallery london
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Georges Seurat A Sunday afternoon on the is land of la grande jatte mk290 1884 oil on can vas 207.6x308cm the art instiute of chicago memorial collection
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Georges Seurat circus mk290 1890-91 canvsa 73x59in musee d orsay paris
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Georges Seurat mine mk290 1887-88 conte crayon 12x9in private collection
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Georges Seurat Two Stonebreakers "Two Stonebreakers (formerly called Deux Moissoneurs)", oil on panel, by the French painter Georges Seurat. 6 in. x 9 3/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Walter J. Kohler, B.A. 1925. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Georges Seurat Vache noire dans un Pre "Vache noire dans un PrX (Black Cow in a Meadow)," oil on panel, by the French artist Georges Seurat. 6 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Walter J. Kohler, B.A. 1925. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Georges Seurat Le Pecheur "Le Pecheur (Riverman; Fisherman)," oil on panel, by the French artist Georges Seurat. 13 3/16 in. x 16 13/16 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Edith Malvina K. Wetmore. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Georges Seurat Two Stonebreakers English: "Two Stonebreakers (formerly called Deux Moissoneurs)", oil on panel, by the French painter Georges Seurat. 6 in. x 9 3/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Walter J. Kohler, B.A. 1925. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date circa 1881
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Georges Seurat Vache noire dans un Pre English: "Vache noire dans un Pre (Black Cow in a Meadow)," oil on panel, by the French artist Georges Seurat. 6 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Walter J. Kohler, B.A. 1925. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date ca. 1881
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Georges Seurat Le Pecheur English: "Le Pecheur (Riverman; Fisherman)," oil on panel, by the French artist Georges Seurat. 13 3/16 in. x 16 13/16 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Edith Malvina K. Wetmore. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date circa 1884
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Georges Seurat La Maria, Honfleur Date 1886(1886)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20.7 x 25 in)
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Georges Seurat Honfleur 1886(1886)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20.7 x 25 in)
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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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