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George Pierre Seurat Research Paper

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George-Pierre Seurat was born on Decemeber 2, 1859 in Paris, France. He was the son of Chrysostom-Antoine Seurat and Ernestine Faivre. He was the youngest of 3 children. His father was a bailiff and a native of Champagne and his mother was Parisian. They were middle-class. The family relocated temporily to Fontainebleau in 1870, while the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune rebellion. When Seurat was a little boy he began to take interest in art and was encouraged by his uncle, Paul Haumonte, who is a textile dealer and amateur painter. ("The Art Story.org - Your Guide to Modern Art")

When Seurat was fifthteen, he entered a local drawing school then three years later he went to Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1878-1879 to study art. …show more content…

Although Seurat chose common Impressionist subjects such as popular entertainment, he adopted traditional techniques of preparation and painting.” (Wallis 52) During 1884-86 Seurat was working on his second large piece of artwork “A Sunday …show more content…

“Most artists that was Post-Impressionists didn’t think of themselves as Post-Impressionists. The name was given to them by an English artist and critic Roger Fry in 1910.” (Bolton 4) Some examples of Post Impressionist artists are Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Camille Pissarro.

Most Post-Impressionists worked in Paris. “Paris was considered to be the art capital of the world at that time. There was an intense concentration of artistic activity and art dealers in the city, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and academie Jlian were key schools where many artists were taught.” (Bolton 9) When he was alive he was a known artist but after he died he became famous. Some of his paintings was “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, “Bathers at Asnieres”, and “The Lighthouse at Honfleur.” But his most famous one is “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande

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