Seu·rat

(sə-rä′, sœ-), Georges Pierre 1859-1891.

French painter. A founder of neoimpressionism, he developed pointillism, the technique used in his masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886).

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Seurat

(French sœra)

(Biography) Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1859–91, French neoimpressionist painter. He developed the pointillist technique of painting, characterized by brilliant luminosity, as in Dimanche à la Grande-Jatte (1886)

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Seu•rat

(sʊˈrɑ)

n.

Georges, 1859–91, French painter.

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I told students about Seurat and showed them reproductions of his paintings.

Seurat-the-dots

He was defending the art movement started by his good friend and fellow artist George Seurat and built upon by Signac himself, Camille Pissarro, and others.

Optics and biologic connectedness

The Art Institute of Chicago announces the exhibition of one of the world's most famous and most reproduced paintings,"A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," (1884) by Georges-Pierre Seurat. The painting is of an island just beyond Paris' city limits.

The making of a masterpiece

At a September 2003 event sponsored by Washington's Corcoran Gallery, comedian Steve Martin discussed his extraordinary art collection--works by Georges Seurat, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, and Roy Lichtenstein, not to mention Martin Mull--with art critic Deborah Solomon of The New York Times.

The collector

Among the Liverpool treasures are Rubens' The Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth and the Child Baptist, Seurat's Ville d'Avray,and The Murder by Cezanne.

Mersey treasures on show in London

With certain well-founded reservations, Meier-Graefe was willing to grant that, together with Georges Seurat, Signac had via the color-divisionist technique hit on a kind of creative bedrock.

Developing in reverse: Signac at the Metropolitan

Inked with the subtlety of a Seurat painting, the environment is clearly stronger than the people--"The twigs are pushing out of the ditch, they end in long sharp thorns and get twisted in their search for light"--and the characters are at the mercy of circumstance.

Nadirs

"Then I saw a documentary on the Pointillist painter Georges Seurat and it changed my life completely."

The stars come out for Pogus

As in a Seurat painting, these point-like sources of light combine to form the broad brush strokes of the low-energy X-ray sky.

Finding the origins of the X-ray sky

One example of an "In the Style of" project utilizes Seurat's Pointillist technique, a lesson already assigned by hundreds of not thousands of art educators.

How to Paint Light

Through their enlightened policy of allowing members to show a work by a guest artist at each annual exhibition, Les XX introduced Belgian audiences to Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat, Whistler, Rodin, Liebermann and Sargent.

Brussels sprouts: Laura Gascoigne is impressed by an intelligent new fin de siecle museum in the Belgian capital