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Georges Seurat
1859 – 1891 · aged 32
French painter (1859-1891)
- Born
- 2 Dec 1859 · former 5th arrondissement of Paris
- Died
- 29 Mar 1891 · boulevard de Magenta
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- 2 Dec 1859BornBorn in former 5th arrondissement of Paris
- 29 Mar 1891DiedDied in boulevard de Magenta
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Biography
Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: SUR-ah, -ə, US: suu-RAH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.
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