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George Pierre Seurat Artist of Color and Vision

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George Pierre Seurat. Artist of Color and Vision. His Life. George Seurat was born on 2 December 1859 in France France is a beautiful European country. His father and mother were very rich But Seurat lived in a small house near the river with little money - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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George Pierre Seurat

Artist of Color and Vision

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His LifeGeorge Seurat was born on 2

December 1859 in France

France is a beautiful European country

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His father and mother were very rich

But Seurat lived in a small house near the river with little money

His friend and Uncle showed him how to paint

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He worked in the army for some time also

He loved to paint and went to art school

But he did not like school so he thought he will learn by himself

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He made his first painting in Paris and called it

“Bathers at Asnieres”

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But the painting was rejected

He thought he will make paintings that people will like not museums

He believed that music and painting bring happiness

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Color WheelSeurat believed that you do

not have to use all colors to make a painting, you can use basic colors red, yellow, blue and green and make dots next to each other, they will look like all different colors!!

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Red

Yellow

Green

Color Wheel

Blue

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His style of ArtHe thought if he would draw lots

of dots with different colors next to each other, it will look very colorful

He called it as “Pointillism” (p-o-i-n-ti-ll-ism!!!)

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His Arts What is pointillism?

Instead of drawingWith different colors,He made dots with Basic colors red, blue,Green and yellow

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It means that if you draw different colored dots all over the painting

The person who sees it, will see it as a picture

He liked to paint nature and his paintings were very colorful

He made MODERN ART

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Since he lived near a park, he loved to draw parks and beaches with lots of orange, blue, green colors.

At the age of 28 he had drawn over 40 paintings

He used to go and sit by the river in the day and work in his art studio in the night

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His most famous painting is called “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of

La Grande Jatte”- (grhand zhot )!!

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Most Famous painting

Seurat made this gigantic painting in 2 years!!

It is 6ft, 10 inches by 10 ft, 1 inch!! (approximately 2 X 3 meters)

he painted many green and red dots in a certain way that when you see the painting, the color is seen as yellow, the combination of both colors.

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This painting shows people having a good time near the river

It is hanging in the Art Institute of Chicago

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Seurat also loved to go to the circus

So he made paintings of circus

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He also made paintings of singers

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And many other things…….

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Seurat never sold a painting when he was living

His all the 40 paintings were found after him

His paintings are very expensive and kept in all the art places in the world.

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