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Georges Seurat
Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
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culture · French painter (1859–1891) · painter · draftsperson · architectural drafter · also Georges Seurat, Georges-Pierre Seurat, George Pierre Seurat, Seurat, Georges Pierre Seurat, g. seurat
Born 2 December 1859 · Died 29 March 1891 · Q34013
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: How master of pointillism Georges Seurat painted the sea
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2024· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “This is a real photograph recreating French artist Georges Seurat's 1888 painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"” True.
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Yahoo: Fact Check: The Amazing Story Behind This Photo Recreation of Georges Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'
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2021· 1 entry
9to5google: Google Doodle honors Georges Seurat, the French painter who invented Pointillism
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2019· 1 entry
Astronomy: Georges Seurat’s sky
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1891· 2 entries
Died 1891-03-29.
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“They [the visitors in his studio, praising his work] see poetry in what I have done. No, I apply my method and that is all there is to it.”
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1889· 1 entry
Moved in with Seurat in his studio on the seventh floor of 128 bis Boulevard de Clichy
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1878· 1 entry
Moved on to the École des Beaux-Arts where he was taught by Henri Lehmann, and followed a conventional academic training, drawing from casts of antique sculpture and copying drawings by old masters
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1859· 3 entries
Born 1859-12-02.
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Seurat was born on 2 December 1859 in Paris, at 60 rue de Bondy (now rue René Boulanger).
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But he did copy out several paragraphs from the chapter on painting, and he had read Charles Blanc's Grammaire des arts du dessin (1867), which cites Chevreul's work
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