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Georges Seurat

French post-Impressionist painter and pioneer of pointillism

Georges Seurat

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He died at age 31 on 29 March 1891 in his parents' home.[1] Born on 2 December 1859 at 60 rue de Bondy in Paris, Georges Pierre Seurat was a French artist associated with post-Impressionism.[2][3] The painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) changed modern art's direction by launching Neo-Impressionism and stands as a key work of the late 19th century.[4]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Born
2 December 1859
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
29 March 1891
Field
Painting
Movement
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Neo-Impressionism
  • Pointillism
Partner
Madeleine Knobloch
Children
2

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

In 1878 he moved to the École des Beaux-Arts for conventional academic training under Henri Lehmann.[5] He spent 1883 working on his first major painting, Bathers at Asnières, which was rejected by the Paris Salon.[6][7] Seurat then helped found the Société des Artistes Indépendants with artists including Paul Signac.[7] He spent two years completing A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, producing about 60 studies for it.[8]

Seurat concealed his relationship with Madeleine Knobloch, an artist's model who gave birth to their son Pierre-Georges on 16 February 1890.[9] Following a year of infantry duty with the 19th Line Regiment in Brest, he came back to Paris and set up a shared studio with his friend Aman-Jean.[10] At the 1883 Salon, the first piece he ever exhibited was a Conté crayon portrait of Aman-Jean.[11] Seurat passed away in 1891, and his final major piece, The Circus, remained incomplete.[1][12]

What the cited sources add

A 2011 account by Alex Mittelmann notes that Seurat's work captured Cubists' attention from 1911 due to its flatter, more linear structures.[13][14] The same source states that the concept of mathematically expressed painting was well established among French artists, and Neo-Impressionists had succeeded in establishing an objective scientific basis in color.[15] The Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition materials describe Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 as having a painted border from 1888/89.[16] A Chicago Shakespeare Theater production account explains that the musical Sunday in the Park with George was inspired by Seurat's most famous work, which is in the Art Institute's permanent collection.[17]

The same source quotes a critic describing Seurat in the musical as "an artist at an intense remove from his world"[17] A Playbill article reports that the musical originally opened on Broadway on May 2, 1984 and ran for 540 performances.[18]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Seurat: p. 16 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; ; "Seurat, Georges Pierre", Oxford University Press; ; ; "Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Seurat: p. 16; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fry, Roger Essay, 'The Dial', Camden, New Jersey, September 1926; "Art Institute of Chicago", Artic.edu (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Seurat's painting Practice: Theory, Development and Technology", National Gallery Technical Bulletin, 2003; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11; "Seurat's painting Practice: Theory, Development and Technology", National Gallery Technical Bulletin, 2003; Signac, Paul Brief Survey, in Revue Blanche Paris 1899; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Retrieved 25 April 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Seurat: pp. 18–22 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Foa, "Georges Seurat: the art of vision", Yale University Press, 2015, p. 9; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11; Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Georges Seurat, 1859–1891 1991, p. 11; "Seurat's painting Practice: Theory, Development and Technology", National Gallery Technical Bulletin, 2003 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Death of Seurat, CDC", Cdc.gov, 14 April 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  13. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alex Mittelmann, State of the Modern Art World, The Essence of Cubism and its Evolution in Time, 2011; Fry, Roger Essay in The Dial, Camden, New Jersey, September 1926. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  14. Alex Mittelmann, State of the Modern Art World, The Essence of Cubism and its Evolution in Time, 2011. facts only, no text reused. cubism-coldcreation.blogspot.com
  15. Wikipedia, "Georges Seurat" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alex Mittelmann, State of the Modern Art World, The Essence of Cubism and its Evolution in Time, 2011 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  16. "Art Institute of Chicago", Artic.edu. facts only, no text reused. artic.edu
  17. "Sunday in the Park with George – Chicago Shakespeare Theater", Theatreinchicago.com. facts only, no text reused. theatreinchicago.com
  18. Gans, Andrew. "McDonald-LuPone-Cerveris Sunday in the Park with George Begins Sept. 3" Playbill.com, 3 September 2004. facts only, no text reused. playbill.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Georges Seurat (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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