1. 1. Georges Seurat Pointillism* Portrait of Seurat by Maximillian Luce
2. 2. Georges Seurat was born in France in 1859. He created a new style of painting called Pointillism. Pointillism is painting with little dots and dashes of color. If you look at Seurats paintings closely, all you see are dots, but when you move away from the painting, your eyes form the dots into a picture.
3. 3. What is Pointillism? Pointillism is a technique of painting in which a lot of tiny dots are combined to form a picture.Eiffel TowerClose up view of Eiffel Tower
4. 4. The Circus, 1891 by Seurat.This is a close up of the riders leg.
5. 5. An even closer view!
6. 6. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1886 This painting covers a wall, has 3,456,000 dots, and took two years to paint!
7. 7. Seurat died of a sudden illness when he was only 32 years old. Although he lived only a short time, he created a remarkable art style. He influenced many other artists of the time including Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Matisse.* Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night - 1889* Henri Matisse Luxe calme et volupt - 1905