Georges Seurat

Anderson Wey, Preston Boyce, Hannah Markle

About

• French painter/draftsman• Studied with Justin Lequiene

(sculptor)• Attended ecole des Beaux-

Arts (1878-1879)• Rjection led to Societe des

Artistes • Cause of death uncertain • Used pointilism - a style of

painting in which a picture is formed from small dots of color

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

• Relaxing in a park on an island (La Grande Jatte)

• Horizontal brush strokes and complementary colors

• Small dots to appear as solid forms (pixels, not vectors)

• Pointilism

The Circus

• Unfinished• Similar to Cheret,

accusation of plagiarism• Front section activity, back

section speculation• Intended to cause

happiness through action and color

• Pointilism• Lots of red, yellow, orange