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#ArtSaturday Georges-Pierre Seurat 1854-1891
French Impressionist painter who developed Pointillism pic.twitter.com/YUB5mUISQZ

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
had a traditional art education

Landscape at Saint-Ouen, 1879 pic.twitter.com/8AcTemUSjw

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
S thought of himself as a typically classical artist/painter

A Head of a Girl 1879 pic.twitter.com/Shv6xtiw6E

— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 13, 2018

#ArtSaturday Seurat
After ending formal art education, spent a year in military service

1883: exhibited his first work: drawing of his friend Aman-Jean, with whom Seurat shared a studio pic.twitter.com/EfdhNsRvWR

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The Forest at Pontaubert, 1881 pic.twitter.com/3QIXnNrWDN

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Vase of Flowers, 1881 pic.twitter.com/ERnCEG7Bun

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Grassy Riverbank, 1881 pic.twitter.com/yihPZ6CzjM

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Man Leaning on a Parapet, 1881 pic.twitter.com/nOb6htKhpl

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Stone Breakers, Le Raincy, 1881 pic.twitter.com/80hpjDsgqt

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The Suburbs, 1882 pic.twitter.com/LiHUIln6L8

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Landscape in the Ile de France, 1882 pic.twitter.com/4LDnokiyU6

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Peasants Driving Stakes, 1882 pic.twitter.com/pYRLVzppou

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Peasant with a Hoe, 1882 pic.twitter.com/HklFxIMfLo

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
wanted to abandon Impressionism, which he felt captured “only the fleeting moment”

Fishing in the Seine 1883 pic.twitter.com/tFxEUKBlUJ

— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 13, 2018

#ArtSaturday Seurat
saw himself as a classical painter though his subject matter — everyday people — was of the Impressionist school rather than of the Classical one

Farm Women at Work, 1883 pic.twitter.com/t3xOJBezKQ

— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 13, 2018

#ArtSaturday Seurat
posed figures in paintings as if they were in monumental Classical reliefs, but painted ordinary people, not heroes, nobility, or royalty

Riverbank of the Seine at Asnieres, 1883 pic.twitter.com/l5GsA2TTl8

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
tried to capture all the colors that “interacted with each other” when viewing an object

Edge of Wood, Springtime, 1883 pic.twitter.com/8LORWz2rE3

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Clothes on the Grass, 1883 pic.twitter.com/ywrLPZvEa9

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1883:
Peasant Woman Seated in Grass
Laborers
View of the Seine pic.twitter.com/gbSb66LFks

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1884:
Cadet from Saint Cyr
Courbevoie Landscape with Turret
Horse and Cart
Seated and Standing Woman pic.twitter.com/PuJ8F57ko5

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
unlike other Impressionists, S did many studies for his paintings, rather than paint only from what he was viewing

1884: Bathers at Asnière
Seurat’s fist major painting with new techniques
rejected for exhibition by Salon pic.twitter.com/h5eI7eFJKP

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1884: Study for a Sunday Afternoon pic.twitter.com/rSmqGfT1rg

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
Pointillism was originally coined by critics to mock technique of painting small, distinct dots to form pattern
Pointillism developed by Seurat, leading to Neo-Impressionism
A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte, 1884 (his most famous work using Pointillism) pic.twitter.com/VBDKlnoUdT

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A View of Fort Samson, 1885 pic.twitter.com/Sa3JHDUCtP

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Le Bec de Hoc, 1885 pic.twitter.com/2rZ7uUx7OO

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Corner of the Harbour de Honfleur, 1886 pic.twitter.com/6zgP22azfS

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Circus SideShow, 1887-88 pic.twitter.com/I8inxcZ5P0

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The Seine and La Grande Jatte, Springtime, 1888 pic.twitter.com/CHdiLWKKYH

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Grey Weather, Grande Jatte, 1888 pic.twitter.com/UAME3GE8XQ

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The Models, 1888
(Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon appears in background) pic.twitter.com/0iTC8kL8Yx

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
1889: hid his relationship with artist’s model Madeleine Knobloch (also, Knoblock) though they lived together and she bore him children

Woman Powdering Herself (featuring Madeleine) 1889 pic.twitter.com/acRph7YoBj

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Eiffel Tower, 1889 pic.twitter.com/ccyqsYfaRV

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#ArtSaturday Seurat
1891: died, age 31, @ parents home, from meningitis/pneumonia
son died 2 weeks later from same disease/infection
Madeleine pregnant
2nd child died during birth or shortly after
last work, The Circus, left unfinished at Seurat’s death pic.twitter.com/TCSXXPIhdx

— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 13, 2018