Georges Seurat
Also known as Georges-Pierre Seurat, George Pierre Seurat, Seurat, Georges Pierre Seurat, g. seurat, Zhorzh Sera, Hsiu-la
French painter (1859-1891)
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Georges Seurat was a French painter from the late 1800s who lived a relatively short life, dying at age 31. He is remembered as an important figure in art history, though the specific details of his techniques and contributions would require additional context to fully explain.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1859
- Died
- 1891
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Seurat (1859-1891)
- Sūra to shinʼinshōha
- Xiula, 1859-1891, Xinieke, 1863-1935
- Tout l'œuvre peint de Seurat
- A Sunday afternoon on the great island of Jatte
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1859
- Active to
- 1891
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
Works in European collections
10 objects attributed to Georges Seurat, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Georges Pierre Seurat ( UK: /ˈsɜːrɑː, -ə/ SUR-ah, -ə, US: /sʊˈrɑː/ 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.
