BY BRANDON ST. LUCIA&

LIZ MAGALLANES

Georges SeuratPointillism

Georges Seurat

Born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, FranceSpent his life studying color theories and

different liner structuresSeurat didn’t mix his colors yet he still

painted with tones that brought his paintings to life

Developed style known as pointillism

Biography

Self PortraitSeurat started his career as an impressionist artist. As he grew as an artist he found impressionism to be boring and dull. He moved away from the apparent naturalness of impressionism and developed a structure, for more epic art to depict modern and urban life. He is considered one of the most important post-impressionist painters.

What is Pointillism?

Pointillism a style of the late 19th century based upon some Impressionist techniques and the application of scientific theories of the process of vision; begun by Seurat, who gave it the name Divisionism, it consists of using dots of unmixed color side by side so that the viewer’s eye may mix them into the appropriate intermediate color. Also called Neo-Impressionism. — Pointillist, n. — Pointillistic, adj.

The concept of pointillism is to create a solid space by using dots of two or more colors in an area. The colors mix from a distance, creating a new color.

Understanding Pointillism

•The Color Wheel of Pointillism

•Created through Optical Blending

• Placement of dots is necessary to create new hues

• Makes paintings look textured, but really it is hundreds of tiny dots

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte 1886

Painted: 1886This is the most famous

piece of art recognized as Pointillism.

Current Location: Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Seine Grande Jatte

Date: 1888Medium: oil on canvasDimensions: 26 x 32 inches Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

La Tour Eiffel• Date: 1889•Medium: Oil on canvas•Current location: Fine Arts Museum,

San Francisco

Boats, Low Tide

• Date: 1885• Medium: oil on canvas

Seurat’s Passion

Seurat’s debut of A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte was said to be scandalous and a mockery of Impressionism.

Seurat was only 26 when his painting immediately changed the course of impressionism.

The new name for this style was called Neo impressionismHis first painting of A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte

became the first to enter a public collectionIt is an icon and is one of the art worlds most recognizable

images

Resources

http://www2.si.umich.edu/chico/Emerson/seurat.html (slide 2) http://wortleyvillage.net/postimp/G_Seurat/indexB.html (slide 3) http://www.nationalga;;ery.org .uk/artists/georges-seurat(slide 3) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pointillism (slide 4) http://www.childs.mccsc.edu/art99/art2p6.htm (slide 4) http://www.learntoart.com/index.php/archives/colour-theory/dot-

painting-pointillism-in-colour/ (slide 5)

http://artisword.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/georges-seurat-sunday-afternoon-on-the-island-of-la-grande-jatte.jpg (slide 6)

http://www.georgesseurat.org/Sunday-Afternoon-on-the-Island-of-la-Grande-Jatte--1886.html (slide 6)

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/l107.html (slide 7) http://s922.photobucket.com/albums/ad61/abpersone/Famous%2

0Pieces%20of%20Art/?action=view&current=seurat2-1.jpg&newest=1 (slide 7)

Resources Cont’d

http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Post-Impressionism/Georges-Pierre+Seurat/Georges+Seurat+-+La+Tour+Eiffel.jpg.html (slide 8)

http://www.encore-editions.com/georges-seurat-french-master-painting-boats-low-tide-grandcamp-1885 (slide 9)

http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/seurat/seurat_themes.html (slide 10)