{"id":13156,"date":"2021-10-06T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=13156"},"modified":"2022-08-07T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T23:48:16","slug":"a-small-list-of-great-artists-11-george-seurat-french-1859-1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/13156","title":{"rendered":"A Small List of Great Artists \u2013 George Seurat\u00a0(French, 1859-1891)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GEORGES SEURAT<\/strong> (French, 1859-1891) devised, without any tradition before him, a mathematically precise painting technique of color theory, where he juxtaposed tiny dots of contrasting colors close together, so that the viewers\u2019 eyes blend the colors optically. This may be one of my earliest realizations about the magic of art, having an elementary school teacher show the class how all these tiny dots combine to make an enormous drawing of a park! His paintings took years, often with dozens of preparatory studies beforehand, and as a result his actual body of work is small (seven monumental paintings, hundreds of drawings and sketches, forty smaller scale paintings and sketches). The average artist doesn\u2019t show their full potential until the two-thirds mark of their lives. Seurat painted his masterpiece at age 25 and died at age 31, the cause of death uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Georges Seurat<\/a>, Locomotive<\/em> <\/a>(1883-84), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Georges Seurat<\/a>, Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy<\/em> (1888), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris showing his sons the dots that make Georges Seurat<\/a>, Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy<\/em> (1888), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Georges Seurat<\/a>, The Forest at Pontaubert<\/em> (1881), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> , New York City <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Georges Seurat<\/a>, Gray Weather, Grande Jatte<\/em> (1886-88), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> , New York City <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Georges Seurat<\/a>, Study for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte<\/em> (1884), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> , New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Georges Seurat<\/a>, Circus Sidehow<\/em> (1887-88), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> , New York City <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n

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GEORGES SEURAT (French, 1859-1891) devised, without any tradition before him, a mathematically precise painting technique of color theory, where he juxtaposed tiny dots of contrasting colors close together, so that the viewers\u2019 eyes blend the colors optically. This may be one of my earliest realizations about the magic of art, having an elementary school teacher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brush-with-peril"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"GEORGES SEURAT (French, 1859-1891) devised, without any tradition before him, a mathematically precise painting technique of color theory, where he juxtaposed tiny dots of contrasting colors close together, so that the viewers\u2019 eyes blend the colors optically. 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