It’s the birthday of pointillist painter Georges-Pierre Seurat, born in Paris, France (1859). He used a technique he called Divisionism—it later came to be known as Pointillism – where, instead of mixing his colors on the palette, he applied them unmixed in tiny dabs on the canvas, believing they would merge in an “optical mixture” in the viewer’s eye.
Source: Writer's Almanac 2000
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Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: /ˈsɜːrɑː, -ə/ SUR-ah, -ə, US: /sʊˈrɑː/ suu-RAH,[1][2][3][4][5] French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa];[6] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) 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.
Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind.[7] His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.[8]
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–1886,
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