Georges Seurat

Seurat painted for a time with the Impressionist painters, Claude Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Pissarro. His scientific ideas about color then led him to develop a different painting technique. He painted in tiny dots of color, with the theory that the viewer's eye would mix them. This technique is called "pointillism".

Seurat and his followers are often referred to as the Neo-Impressionists ("New Impressionists"). His most famous paintings are A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (18841886) in the Chicago Art Institute and Bathers at Asnières (1884) in the National Gallery, London.Art Institute of Chicagohe  died in 1891, probably from some acute respiratory infection, such as diphteria, pneumonia, or meningitis, but the exact cause of his death is unclear.  

 Related pages  
 Impressionism
 Post-impressionism 
 Expressionism 
 Pointillism 

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