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Georges Seurat
Flank Stance
mk106
1887
24.5x15.5cm
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Georges Seurat
A standing position of the Obverse
mk106
1887
26x17.2cm
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Georges Seurat
Young Woman Powdering Herself
mk106
188-1889
94x79.5cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1887
16x26cm
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Georges Seurat
Circus
mk106
1890-1891
185x150cm
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Georges Seurat
Study for Circus
mk106
1890-1891
55x46cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1885
66.2X82.5cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure of Landscape
mk106
1886
Oil on canvas
67x78cm
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Georges Seurat
The Dock of Corner
mk106
1886
Oil on canvas
81x65cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1886
Oil on canvas
66.7x82cm
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Georges Seurat
End of the Seawall
mk106
1886
Oil on canvas
46x55cm
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Georges Seurat
Seine-s Dusk
mk106
1886
Oil on canvas
64.2x80cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1886
Oil on canvas
53x63.5cm
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Georges Seurat
The Bridge of Port en bessin and Seawall
mk106
1888
67x84.5cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1886
54x65cm
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Georges Seurat
The Landscape of Port en bessin
mk106
1888
Oil on canvas
67.4x81.5cm
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Georges Seurat
The Reflux of Port en bessin
mk106
1888
Oil on canvas
53.5x65.7cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1890
Oil on canvas
73x92cm
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Georges Seurat
Impression Figure
mk106
1890
Oil on canvas
65.2x81.7cm
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Georges Seurat
The Flux of Port en bessin
mk106
1888
Oil on canvas
68x82cm
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| Georges Seurat
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French Pointillist Painter, 1859-1891
Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 ?C 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting
Seurat took to heart the color theorists' notion of a scientific approach to painting. Seurat believed that a painter could use color to create harmony and emotion in art in the same way that a musician uses counterpoint and variation to create harmony in music. Seurat theorized that the scientific application of color was like any other natural law, and he was driven to prove this conjecture. He thought that the knowledge of perception and optical laws could be used to create a new language of art based on its own set of heuristics and he set out to show this language using lines, color intensity and color schema. Seurat called this language Chromoluminarism.
His letter to Maurice Beaubourg in 1890 captures his feelings about the scientific approach to emotion and harmony. He says "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations".
Seurat's theories can be summarized as follows: The emotion of gaiety can be achieved by the domination of luminous hues, by the predominance of warm colors, and by the use of lines directed upward. Calm is achieved through an equivalence/balance of the use of the light and the dark, by the balance of warm and cold colors, and by lines that are horizontal. Sadness is achieved by using dark and cold colors and by lines pointing downwards.
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