A Fisherman (ca. 1884) by Georges Seurat. Original from Yale University Art Gallery
He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in 1878 and 1879. His teacher was a follower of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. The young Seurat was strongly influenced by Rembrandt and Francisco Goya.
He left the École des Beaux-Arts in 1879 to do military service in Brest. There he drew scenes of the beaches and the sea. A year later he returned to Paris and studied with Lehmann. However, his style was unconventional and he soon left school. At the time, Seurat shared a studio with Edmond-François Aman-Jean. Some of his works use the banks of the Seine as a backdrop, on the island of La Grande Jatte, a two-kilometer-long, narrow island in the Seine, in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris.
Together with Paul Signac, he focused on the theoretical foundations of color effect. His technique of rendering light using small brushstrokes with contrasting colors became known as divisionism. A less correct name is Pointilism, because it refers more to the technique of applying. He first tested his theory that the small dots, viewed from a distance, in the eye of the beholder, were tested in the large canvas La baignade à Asnières (1883-1884; National Gallery, London), in which the colors themselves were still mixed. goods.
In subsequent works, including the large canvas Dimanche d'été à la Grande Jatte (1886; Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago), he juxtaposed unmixed colors, a method that is charact
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