Georges Seurat was a French post-Impressionist painter born in 1859 in Paris, France. He is best known for developing the technique of pointillism and his most famous painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which took him two years to complete using tiny dots of color. Seurat studied art in Paris and developed pointillism to produce greater luminosity and color brilliance in his works. He died of diphtheria in 1891 at the age of 31.
8. Pointillism
Pointillism is a technique of Neo-
Impressionist painting using tiny
dots of various pure colors, which
becomes blended to the viewer’s eyes.
It was developed by Seurat with the
aim of producing a greater degree of
luminosity and brilliance of color.
9. Seurat’s studies
Seurat studied at the official Paris
art school in 1878.
He affected himself majorly when he
went to this school to study. He also
influenced much more people with him.
14. Seurat’s Death
Seurat died on March 29th 1891 in
Paris, France.
Seurat died from a throat infection
known as Diphtheria. However, we are
not 100% positive what caused
Seurat’s death. Even today.