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  1. What is the English language plot outline for Georges Seurat: Point Counterpoint (1979)?

    • Ann Turner
    • 122
    • 1979
    • David Thompson
    • Childhood
    • Early Training
    • Mature Period
    • Late Period
    • The Legacy of Georges Seurat

    Georges Seurat was born in Paris December 2, 1859, the youngest of three children. His father, Chrysostome-Antoine Seurat, was a bailiff; his mother, Ernestine Faivre, came from a prosperous family that had produced several sculptors. Seurat's eccentric father had already retired with a small fortune by the time Seurat was born, and he spent most o...

    Seurat's formal training began around 1875, when he entered the local municipal art school under the sculptor Justin Lequien. There, he made a friend of Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1935) and together they entered the École des Beaux-Arts run by Henri Lehmann, a disciple of the Neo-Classical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Seurat attended the Acad...

    Seurat began to apply his theoretical research to compositions executed between 1881 and 1884, culminating in his first major painting project, the Bathers at Asnières (1884). This monumental canvas depicted a group of workers relaxing by the Seine and was based on numerous small oil sketches and figure studies. The final composition is an accompli...

    The exhibition of La Grande Jattein 1886 unexpectedly aroused interest in Seurat's work internationally. Soon after the exhibition, Seurat was mentioned in an avant-garde review and some of his paintings were shown by the renowned art dealer Paul Durant-Ruel in both Paris and New York City. During this time he began associating with a very enclosed...

    Seurat was only 31 when he died, yet he left behind an influential body of work, comprising seven monumental paintings, hundreds of drawings and sketches, and around 40 smaller-scale paintings and sketches. Although his oeuvreis relatively small in quantity, it had a lasting impact. He was among the first artists to make a systematic and devoted us...

    • French
    • December 2, 1859
    • Paris, France
    • March 29, 1891
  2. Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: / ˈ s ɜːr ɑː,-ə / SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: / s ʊ ˈ r ɑː / suu-RAH, French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist.

  3. Patrick Pacheco "Point Counterpoint : Five American painters discuss the relevance and influence of Georges Seurat's work today." Art and Antiques . vol. 8, no. 8, October 1991, p. 75, ill. Robert L. Herbert, Françoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow Georges Seurat, 1859-1891.

  4. Writer/narrator David Thompson examines the work of French painter Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Seurat's early drawings and work in oils demonstrate his intellectual exploration of the qualities of materials and light.

  5. Combining both the impressionists love of light and colour with his own ‘scientific’ system for colour exploration Suerat welcomed the post-revolutionary era, and not unlike the Eiffel tower that became a symbol for modern France, Seurat was to symbolise the shift toward the modern in the art world.

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