| George Seurat (1859-1891) - pointillism | ||
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 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Art Institute of Chicago Seurat was still a boy (age 14) when the Impressionists first showed their works in public. He attended art school when he was 17. He felt that the Impressionists had lost any sense of structure and composition in their works. So he developed a system of pointillism, which involved the use of small dots of pure color (including complements for an after-image) which were blended by the eye. He developed this scientific system of color to the point that he could work even by artificial light. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is his masterpiece. He did sketches on location, but preferred to work in the studio from models. He even used fashion ads from newspapers and magazines for the costumes. It is a wall-size painting which took two years to complete. In 1891 he was preparing for an exhibit when he died from an unknown illness (diphtheria?) at age 31.
Some information taken from "George Seurat: Working With Color." Scholastic. Art & Man 16:2 (November 1985) |
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