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Portrait of Seurat by Maximilien Luce. This is a list of notable paintings by Georges Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891). He is a Neo-Impressionist painter and together with Paul Signac noted for being the inventor of pointillism. [1] The listing follows the 1980 book Georges Seurat and uses its catalogue numbers. [2]
Georges Seurat first studied art at the École Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin, near his family's home in the boulevard Magenta, which was run by the sculptor Justin Lequien. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 1878, he moved on to the École des Beaux-Arts where he was taught by Henri Lehmann , and followed a conventional academic training, drawing from casts ...
Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.
Young Woman Powdering Herself (French: Jeune femme se poudrant) is an oil on canvas painting executed between 1889–90, by the French painter Georges Seurat. [1] The work, one of the leading examples of pointillism, depicts the artist's mistress Madeleine Knobloch. [2]
The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe is a pointillist painting by French artist Georges Seurat, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. Painted in 1890, the year before his death, it depicts a harbor in the small French port of Gravelines. [1] Described as "wistful and poetic," it is one of the treasures of ...
The axes painted by Seurat do not correspond precisely to the golden section, 1 : 1.6, as might have been expected (yellow lines, so1 - so4). Rather, the axes painted in the composition correspond to basic mathematical divisions (simple ratios that appear to approximate the golden section).
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1891, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .
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