Georges Seurat
GeorgesPierre Seurat was a French postImpressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurats 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 largescale work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte , altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neoimpressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19thcentury painting.
Seurat was bornDecember 1859 in Paris, at 60 rue de Bondy . The Seurat family moved to 136 boulevard de Magenta in 1862 or 1863. His father, Antoine Chrysostome Seurat, originally from Champagne, was a former legal official who had become wealthy from speculating in property, and his mother, Ernestine Faivre, was from Paris. Georges had a brother, mile Augustin, and a sister, MarieBerthe, both older. His father lived in Le Raincy and visited his wife and children once a week at boulevard de Magenta.
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