Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the late 19th century. Seurat was a very unique artist for his time due to the way he approached his paintings. The majority of his art was created using a “pointillist mark – or… pixel” which, when viewed from a distance, completed the picture in a pleasing way. This became his token feature, and was first showcased in one of his most famous works, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Fig. 1). The laid back, everyday-life of this painting also was distinctive about this piece and many others. I feel that Seurat strived to tell a story within his paintings, with hidden messages that we may not even know about.

My favourite of his pieces is The Eiffel Tower (Fig. 2). The colours are beautifully vibrant and I enjoy the casual, pointillistic brush strokes. I especially love the bottom part of the tower as the dots get more concentrated, with dark blues as shaded accents. The painting is very pleasing to the eye and works well.

Figure 1: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886

Figure 2: The Eiffel Tower, 1889

La Seine a la Grand-Jatte, 1888

Parade de Cirque, 1887-1888                                                            Detail of Painting

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Works Cited

ARMSTRONG, CAROL. “Seurat’s Media, or A Matrix of Materialities.” Grey Room, no. 58, Winter 2015, pp. 6–25. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1162/GREYpass:[_]a_00161.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat