Art Collage JANG: ARTIST OF THE WEEK: 37. Georges Seurat, ACJ Art Academy

Saturday, July 11, 2020

ARTIST OF THE WEEK: 37. Georges Seurat, ACJ Art Academy

Born: December 2, 1859; Paris, France

Died: March 29, 1891; Paris, France

Nationality: French

Art Movement: Post-Impressionism, neo-impressionism, Pointillism

Field: painting

Influenced by: Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Francois Millet

Influenced on: Charles Angrand, Edvard Munch, Childe Hassam, Robert Delaunay

Georges Seurat was a French post-impressionist artist who was born on December 2, 1859 and died on March 29, 1891. He is most famous for devising painting techniques known as pointillism and chromoluminarism. Although less famous than his paintings, Seurat's drawings with conté crayon also received a lot of critical appreciation.

Seurat had artistic characteristics that are generally opposite and incompatible, which are extreme and delicate sensibility and logical and mathematical precision. His large-scale work, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” is one of the iconic works of the late 19th century painting and altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism.

Seurat died on March 29, 1891 at the age of 31 at his parents’ home in Paris. The cause of his death was uncertain, and various causes such as meningitis, pneumonia, infectious angina, and diphtheria were suspected as causes of death. His son also died of the same disease two weeks later. His last work, “The Circus”, became an eternal unfinished work by his death.

On March 30, 1891, the Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul held a memorial service for Seurat, and on March 31, 1891, he was buried at Cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

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