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Seurat

[ sœ-ra ]

noun

  1. Georges [zhaw, r, zh], 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.


Seurat

/ sœra /

noun

  1. SeuratGeorges18591891MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1859–91, French neoimpressionist painter. He developed the pointillist technique of painting, characterized by brilliant luminosity, as in Dimanche à la Grande-Jatte (1886)


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He also served as the pipeline between the moneyed class and a variety of Impressionists: Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, and Seurat.

He never kept to the spots that Signac and Seurat had given him.

Seurat, the founder, was the only genuinely artistic man of the movement, and an early death denied him his chance to develop.

In Seurat Gauguin saw almost completely set forth an expression which by its simplicity satisfied him.

They show Seurat's curious desire to give a scientific and classic basis to Impressionism.

Seurat is the only one who seems to have been influenced to any noticeable extent and yet to have remained an artist.

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