GEORGE SEURAT

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GEORGE SEURAT
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• Art Masterpiece
• Basha Elementary
• 4th Grade -- Mrs. Tubolino

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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
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Seurat was born in Parisin 1859
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His family was rich so he never had to work for a
living.
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Seurat first studied sculpture
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He enrolled in a school of art in Paris.
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Seurat spent a lot of time at the Louvre copying
art of famous painters.
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Seurat read a lot of booksand was interested in
scientific theories.
He was as much of a scientist as an artist.
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He studied the effects of color and light and
explored how light was used in black and white
drawings.
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Seurat wanted to create the vibrant colors that
the Impressionsts used.
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Seurat came up with his own method of creating
vibrant colors.
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Seurat came up with his own method of creating
vibrant colors.
He would place small touches of unmixed color
side by side on the canvas.
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Seurat came up with his own method of creating
vibrant colors.
He would place small touches of unmixed color
side by side on the canvas.
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This meant that the eye mixed the colors as the
painting was observed.
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Seurat began to paint using this method.
This technique became known aspointillism
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Seurat applied his paint in thousands of tiny
dots.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
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His spots of color might have been squares,
triangles, circles or tiny lines.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte
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Pointillism
A technique of painting in which many tiny dots
are combined to form a picture.
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When two colors are right next to each other your
eye mixes them in a process called, optical
mixing.
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Using optical mixing rather than physical mixing
can create a brighter picture.
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The Circus 1891 By Georges Seurat
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The Circus 1891 By Georges Seurat
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Pointillism Example Using Soda Cans
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Painting a pointillist piece is a slow and
painstaking process.
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Sunday in the Park
Very Large 7 feet by 10 feet it covers a
wall!
Took Seurat 2 years to finish
Each dot is 1/16 of an inch thats 3,456,000
dots!!
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Lots of artists tried to copy Seurats work. But
no one was ever as good as he was.
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Seurat died very suddenly at the age of 31 in
1891, apparently from meningitis. He had a wife
and a 1-year-old son.
(1859 1891)
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Seurat left behind Over 400 drawings 6
completed sketchbooks 60 canvas paintings
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
JatteBy George Seurat