Georges seurat art style

Bathers at asnières medium
A sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte
Les poseuses

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Poster Seurat Les Baigneurs - cm 60x80

Les Baigneurs Seurat - Georges-Pierre Seurat (French pronunciation: [???? sø?a]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting.

Life
Seurat was born into a wealthy family in Paris. His father, Antoine Chrysostom Seurat, was a legal official and a native of Champagne; his mother, Ernestine Faivre, was Parisian. Georges Seurat first studied art with Justin Lequien, a sculptor. Seurat attended the École des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879. After a year of service at Brest Military Academy, he returned to Paris in 1880. He shared a small studio on the Left Bank with two student friends before moving to a studio of his own. For the next two years he devoted himself to mastering the art of black and white drawing. He spent 1883 on his first major painting — a huge canvas titled

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Georges Seurat (1859-1891) and Paul Signac (1865-1935) are generally associated with “Post-Impressionism” and “Pointillism.”

Georges Seurat (pronounced “George Sir-rah”) was born in Paris. His father grew wealthy from various real estate speculative investments. He studied art as a young man and developed refined sensibilities, as well as mathematical precision in his works.

The Suburbs (1882–1883)

Bathers at Asnières (1884) -an orderly scene of friends enjoying a day on the Seine. It was rejected by the Salon, and not particularly well regarded until after his death. Various portions of the painting appear blurred and hazy. All figures appear static and pensive, excluding the boy in the water. The canvas is massive and predated his other large, famous work.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) -surely Seurat’s most famous painting, completed on a massive canvas. It was displayed with the Impressionists. The painting portrays a number of stoic Parisians enjoying a day on the Seine. Only one figure appears to gaze str

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Georges Seurat, 'Bathers at Asnières', 1884

This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it to be a grand statement with which he would make his mark at the official Salon in the spring of 1884. It shows several men and boys relaxing in the sun on the banks of the Seine, between the bridges at Asnières and Courbevoie, north-west of central Paris. In the background is a railway bridge that partly hides a parallel road bridge, as well as the chimneys of the gas plant and factories at Clichy, where some of the men may work. Recreational sailboats can be seen on the river.

When Seurat studied the location in preparation for the painting, there would have been a path along the embankment as well as run-down houses and villas, boatyards, workshops and lower-class cafes and restaurants. The exposed sand in the middle of the riverbank on the left is the reason for the painting sometimes being titled Une baignade (‘a bathing place’). The term did not imply a middle-class idea of recreation by the