Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seuratwas a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth2 December 1859
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . . people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass.
They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.