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Oil paintings by Seurat, Georges |
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Georges Seurat
(1859-1891)
Georges Pierre Seurat was born on 2 December 1859 in Paris. His father, Chrysostome-Antoine Seurat, had been a legal official in La Villette. He had saved a substantial amount of money and lived a secluded life as a pensioner in his house in the Provence and visited his family in Paris just once a week. Seurat¡¯s mother, Ernestine Faivre, came from a prosperous middle-class Parisian family.
During his schooldays, Seurat was introduced to painting by an uncle on his mother's side, the textile dealer Paul Haumont¨¦-Faivre, himself an amateur painter. In 1875 he started to attend a drawing class taught by the sculptor Justin Lequien at a night school in the city. There he made friends with Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1935/36).
In 1878 Seurat was admitted to the ¨¦cole des Beaux-Arts, together with Aman-Jean, and joined the painting class taught by Henri Lehmann (1814-1882), a pupil of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. The students of the class studied and copied the old masters in the Louvre.
In 1879 Seurat left the ¨¦cole des Beaux-Arts and rented a studio together with his friends Aman-Jean and Ernest Laurent (1861-1929). In May of the same year, Seurat visited the Fourth Impressionist exhibition. This was the first time he had seen their paintings, and they opened his eyes to an art liberated from the rigidities of academic rules. In November his military service started in Brest. All his free time he devoted to drawing and reading on theories of color and vision. In his sketchbook there are numerous sketches of figure, studies of the sea, beach and ships.
In 1880 after returning from Brest, he rented a small room, not far from his parents¡¯ apartment, where he painted his most important works up till 1886. Scientific theories on color and vision continued to deeply interest him. Seurat read the color theories of Ogden N. Rood and studied the paintings of Eug¨¨ne Delacroix.
In 1883 for the first and only time, Seurat¡¯s work, a drawing of Aman-Jean, was allowed in the official Salon. The next, 1884, year Seurat¡¯s first large painting, Bathers at Asni¨¨res, was rejected by the Salon. However, it was shown in the exhibition held by the Soci¨¦t¨¦ des Artistes Ind¨¦pendants. It was there that Seurat became acquainted with Paul Signac, with whom he soon became close friends. After Bathers at Asni¨¨res Seurat started working on another large canvas A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, in which he was to create a new style and also to found an artistic movement, called variously Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism or Divisionism, the last term preferred by Seurat. As usual before beginning the final variant he made an endless series of preliminary sketches and studies, some of them he exhibited with the Ind¨¦pendants in December 1884.
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