Georges Seurat
Post-Impressionist Painter / Draftsman
Died when: 31 years 117 days (375 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: /'s??r??, -?/ SUR-ah, -??, US: /s?'r??/ suu-RAH, French: [???? pj?? sœ?a]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist.
He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind.
His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.
