Georges Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — pointillism

The scientist of painting. He invented pointillism — building images from tiny dots of pure color that the eye blends at a distance — and applied it in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, a monumental canvas that is both utterly modern in technique and classical in its frozen, frieze-like composition. Dead at 31.

Key works

• A Sunday on La Grande Jatte1886— Pointillism's masterpiece — Parisians as geometric figures
  Art Institute of Chicago
• Bathers at Asnieres1884— Working-class leisure — monumental calm
  National Gallery, London

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