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Portrait of French artist Georges Seurat with curly hair, full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side. Georges Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatteā€”1884 Painting by Georges Seurat showing bathers relaxing and swimming along the grassy banks of a river, with boats and a bridge in the background under a blue sky.
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Georges Seurat

French painter
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Vice President, Syndicate of the French Artistic Press, 1965ā€“78. Author of Klee; Manet; Seurat; and many other monographs on modern European artists.
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Georges Seurat (born December 2, 1859, Paris, Franceā€”died March 29, 1891, Paris) was a painter and founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colors became known as Pointillism. Using this technique, he created huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure color too small to be distinguished when looking at the entire work but making his paintings shimmer with brilliance. Works...

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