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Georges Seurat (1848-1903) ( Zhorzh Soo - rah ). A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Georges Seurat. Born Paris France in 1859 Family was very wealthy so never had to work for a living Interest in art at a very young age - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
• Born Paris France in 1859
• Family was very wealthy so never had to work for a living
• Interest in art at a very young age
• First studied sculpture and admitted to prestigious French school at age 17
Spent a great deal of time copying art of famous painters
Interest in scientific theories on uses and effects of color and light
He was as much of a Scientist as an artist
• Used a technique called “pointillism”– Place small touches of
unmixed color side by side
– The eye mixed the colors as painting was observed
– Applied his paint in thousands of tiny dots
– Spots of color might have been squares, triangles, circles or tiny lines
– Preferred using the word “divisionism” to describe his technique
•Work was very influential
•Followers never achieved
the skill set he had
•Died suddenly in 1891 at
age 31 of meningitis
•Left behind over 400
drawings, 6 completed
sketchbooks and 60
canvases
•Had a wife and 1 year-
old son
Georges Seurat
Circus Side Show 1887-1888
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York City
The Laborers 1883
National Gallery
of Art Washington
DC
-Sketch a landscape with a pencil-You will be given 3 paint colors-You will use the q-tip to paint-Dip the q-tip into the paint- (use 1 q-tip per
color)-Press down lightly for small dot & firmly for
larger dot-Fill up as much of the paper as possible with
color