piece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. George-Pierre Seurat was born in France in 1859. Seurat began his career by studying at the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under artist Henri Lehmann” ("Georges Seurat," n.d.), before adventuring out on his own. George Seurat was for the most part self-taught, only attending Ecole des Beaux-Arts for one year. He often visited museums, read about new techniques and studied the works of others. Seurat admired the works of Claude Monet and Camille
at the municipal school of Justin Lequien (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation). He was then enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he was taught by Henri Lehmann (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation). Seurat was deeply influenced by his teacher who was a disciple of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Pioch). Other influences in Seurat’s life included Rembrandt and Francisco de Goya. Much of the education that he received here resulted in his curiosity of the theory of contrasts (The Solomon
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter, as well as a fine draftsman. He was born and raised in a wealthy family in Paris on December 2, 1859. He lived a short life of thirty-one year of age, and in his time, Seurat not only invented his style of pointillism, but he also became the first Neo-Impressionist. In pointillism, Seurat used miniscule dots of various colors on a base color to produce the local color. This creates an optical mixture from afar for the viewer and makes
mostly by his mother. Seurat also had an older brother and an older sister. Seurat received his first art lessons from his uncle, and began formal art education at a local art school around 1875. He moved on to enrollment at the famous art school École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1878, where he mostly copied paintings by the masters. However, he felt that it was too strict, and left in 1879. He then joined a military academy for a year. When he returned, he continued to create art, and shared a small studio
methodical way and become his steadfast patron. Seurat’s influence on Signac would lead him to forsake his impressionist style for divisionism and pointillism. Not long after Signac and Seurat met a couple others and themselves formed the Societe des Artistes Independents. After the groups first exhibition Signac's career began to flourish first by getting invited to impressionists exhibits in 1886 and persuading them to adopt Seurat’s method of pointillism. Although he didn't sell any paintings
The Grand Jatte is a beautifully crafted, rehearsed masterpiece. For Seurat, it was a two-year learning experience in painting. As a short-lived student of the École des Beaux-Arts, he never formally learned much about painting. Instead, on his own, he sat and observed the world around him, drawing constantly. He was inspired by naturalist painters and eventually Impressionist colors. Seurat was not a traditional painter
his uncle, an amateur painter and textile dealer, who gave him his first art lessons. Then in 1875, Seurat entered an art school where he started receiving professional lessons from sculptor Justin Lequiene. About three years later, he entered Ecole des Beaux Arts School and began sketching from plaster casts and live models. On his free time he would visit libraries and art museums in Paris and seek instruction from other well known artists. Michel-Eugene Chevreul was one of the artists who introduced
How is it possible to draw without lines? This may be a simple question to answer today because we have already seen it being done by others, but in the 19th century; no one would have thought of such a possibility. Yet, someone did. His name is Georges Seurat. Seurat was an artist trained in the French academic tradition that emphasized the importance of lines in drawing. Yet Seurat refused to be confined within the limits of his training. He thought outside the lines and the result was a breakthrough