Georges Seurat By Rebecca Emanuel Biographical Information Born
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Georges Seurat By: Rebecca Emanuel
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Biographical Information Born on December 2, 1859 Full name: Georges-Pierre Seurat Youngest of 3 children He was born into a very rich family in Paris. His father was a wealthy lawyer named Chrsostome-Antoine Seurat. His mother, Ernestine Faivre, came from a rich Parisian family. • He died at the age of 31 in 1891. (meningitis) • •
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Biographical Information • 1870 s-Took private drawing lessons from his uncle, Paul Haumonte, a painter. • 1875 - Studied drawing under the sculptor Justin Lequien. • 1878 -1879 -Studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. • Seurat left the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1879 to perform his military service in Brest. • He founded Neo-Impressionism • Created the principle of use of Pointalism
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Influential Life Experiences • He traveled with Edmond. Francois Aman-Jean to the island of La Grande Jatte. This island was the inspiration for many of his future works.
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Influential life experiences • Seurat found lots of inspiration during his military career; much of his inspiration came from the beaches and sea. He created many different paintings and drawings at this time.
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Artist’s Art Movement • Seurat has been noted as the founder of Neo. Impressionism. (Post Impressionism) • Major example as an “artist as a scientist. ” All his life he studied color and theories and the effects of where they should be placed for different effects. • The Pointillism technique, in which small dots of color are grouped to make more colors than that were used, was adopted by his followers, the Neo -Impressionists.
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Artist Art Movement • Neo-Impressionism was the movement of applying separate colors to the surface so that the eye mixed the colors rather than the artist on his or her palette. • It started in France and flourished from 1886 to 1906. • Seurat caused the changing point from the Impressionism movement to Neo-Impressionism. He started using pointillism in his works to depict a new style of art. Many other artist followed and started using new ways that were not acceptable in the Impressionism Era.
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Artist’s Art Movement • Neo-Impressionism led into the Fauvism and Expressionism era. This movement changes color, light, and texture for a desired effect. Georges Seurat affected this movement because the pointillism technique was still used, and so was the blending of colors.
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Artist’s Art Movement • Locations where he worked: Seurat moved wherever he found inspiration. He worked in the war and on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Many of his works were completed in his personal studio. • Other influential artists at this time: Paul Signac, Camille Pissarro, and Lucien Pissarro. • His most famous art works are Bathers at Asnières and A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
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1884 Oil On Canvas A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
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Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp 1885 Oil On Canvas
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The Lighthouse at Honfleur 1886 Oil on Canvas
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Le port de Gravelines Oil On Canvas 1890
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Young Woman Powdering Herself 1890 Oil on Canvas
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Oil on canvas The Circus 1891
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