The neoimpressionist master Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat, 1859-91, French neoimpressionist painter. He devised the pointillist technique of painting in tiny dots of pure color. His method, called divisionism, was a systematic refinement of the broken color of the impressionists. Seurat’s famous paintings are his Baignade (Tate Gall., London), shown in the Salon des Independants in 1884, and Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte (Art Inst., Chicago), completed two years later. He died of pneumonia at 31. Seurat is considered as one of the most intellectual artists of his time and was a great influence in restoring harmonious and deliberate design and a thorough understanding of color combination to painting at a time when sketching from nature had become the mode.
