Class PS - George Seurat

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Details about the artist

• Occupation: Artist, Painter
• Born: December 2, 1859 in Paris, France
• Died: March 29, 1891 (age 31) in Paris, France
• Famous works: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Bathers at Asnières, The Circus
• Style/Period: Pointillism, Neoimpressionist

Georges Seurat was a French post-Impressionist painter who developed pointillism, a technique that uses small dots of color to create an image.

Pointillism

Seurat began to explore the science of optics and color. He found that, rather than mixing the colors of paint on a palette, he could place tiny dots of different colors next to each other on the canvas and the eye would mix the colors. He called this way of painting Divisionism. Today we call it Pointillism. Seurat felt that this new way of painting would make the colors appear more brilliant to the viewer.

Students enjoyed the session of creating artwork inspired from famous artist.

Below are few pictures from the class today.

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