Georges Seurat
French Pointillist Painter, 1859-1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 ?C 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting Seurat took to heart the color theorists' notion of a scientific approach to painting. Seurat believed that a painter could use color to create harmony and emotion in art in the same way that a musician uses counterpoint and variation to create harmony in music. Seurat theorized that the scientific application of color was like any other natural law, and he was driven to prove this conjecture. He thought that the knowledge of perception and optical laws could be used to create a new language of art based on its own set of heuristics and he set out to show this language using lines, color intensity and color schema. Seurat called this language Chromoluminarism. His letter to Maurice Beaubourg in 1890 captures his feelings about the scientific approach to emotion and harmony. He says "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations". Seurat's theories can be summarized as follows: The emotion of gaiety can be achieved by the domination of luminous hues, by the predominance of warm colors, and by the use of lines directed upward. Calm is achieved through an equivalence/balance of the use of the light and the dark, by the balance of warm and cold colors, and by lines that are horizontal. Sadness is achieved by using dark and cold colors and by lines pointing downwards.
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Georges Seurat Sunday Afternoon on the island of the Grande Jatte (nn03) oil painting


Sunday Afternoon on the island of the Grande Jatte (nn03)
1884-6 Oil on canvas 202 x 300 cm 81 x 120 1/2 in Art Institute of Chicago Chicago IL
Painting ID::  23493 		Georges Seurat
Sunday Afternoon on the island of the Grande Jatte (nn03)
1884-6 Oil on canvas 202 x 300 cm 81 x 120 1/2 in Art Institute of Chicago Chicago IL
   
   
     
Georges Seurat Bathing at Asnieres (mk35) oil painting


Bathing at Asnieres (mk35)
1883-1884 Une baignade a Asnieres Oil on canvas 201 x 301.5 cm Tate Gallery London
Painting ID::  24773 		Georges Seurat
Bathing at Asnieres (mk35)
1883-1884 Une baignade a Asnieres Oil on canvas 201 x 301.5 cm Tate Gallery London
   
   
     
Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande jatte (mk39) oil painting


A Sunday on La Grande jatte (mk39)
81 3/4x121 1/4in
Painting ID::  25533 		Georges Seurat
A Sunday on La Grande jatte (mk39)
81 3/4x121 1/4in
   
   
     
Georges Seurat Port-en-Bessin,Entrance to the Harbor oil painting


Port-en-Bessin,Entrance to the Harbor
mk68 Oil on canvas New York Museum of Modern Art 1888 France
Painting ID::  30847 		Georges Seurat
Port-en-Bessin,Entrance to the Harbor
mk68 Oil on canvas New York Museum of Modern Art 1888 France
   
   
     
Georges Seurat The Circus oil painting


The Circus
mk68 Oil on canvas Paris,Orsay Museum 1890-1891 France
Painting ID::  30859 		Georges Seurat
The Circus
mk68 Oil on canvas Paris,Orsay Museum 1890-1891 France
   
   
     
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     Georges Seurat
     French Pointillist Painter, 1859-1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 ?C 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting Seurat took to heart the color theorists' notion of a scientific approach to painting. Seurat believed that a painter could use color to create harmony and emotion in art in the same way that a musician uses counterpoint and variation to create harmony in music. Seurat theorized that the scientific application of color was like any other natural law, and he was driven to prove this conjecture. He thought that the knowledge of perception and optical laws could be used to create a new language of art based on its own set of heuristics and he set out to show this language using lines, color intensity and color schema. Seurat called this language Chromoluminarism. His letter to Maurice Beaubourg in 1890 captures his feelings about the scientific approach to emotion and harmony. He says "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations". Seurat's theories can be summarized as follows: The emotion of gaiety can be achieved by the domination of luminous hues, by the predominance of warm colors, and by the use of lines directed upward. Calm is achieved through an equivalence/balance of the use of the light and the dark, by the balance of warm and cold colors, and by lines that are horizontal. Sadness is achieved by using dark and cold colors and by lines pointing downwards.

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