Georges Seurat

Also known as Georges-Pierre Seurat, George Pierre Seurat, Seurat, Georges Pierre Seurat, g. seurat, Zhorzh Sera, Hsiu-la

French painter (1859-1891)

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Georges Seurat was a French painter and draftsperson born in Paris in 1859. He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris under Henri Lehmann. Seurat worked within the movements of pointillism, Neo-impressionism, and Post-impressionism. His notable works include *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte*, *Bathers at Asnières*, and *The Circus Parade*.

He died in Paris on boulevard de Magenta in 1891 due to natural causes. Seurat is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His native language was French, and his name in his native language was Georges-Pierre Seurat. He is described by the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1859
Died: 1891
Works: 29

Top works

Seurat (1859-1891)
Sūra to shinʼinshōha
Xiula, 1859-1891, Xinieke, 1863-1935
Tout l'œuvre peint de Seurat
A Sunday afternoon on the great island of Jatte

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1859
Active to: 1891

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 8
Total plays: 12

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,297x
Dynamical mean-field theory of strongly correlated fermion systems and the limit of infinite dimensions
· 1996 · cited 6,412x
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,511x
Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men
· 2010 · cited 4,372x
Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease
· 2012 · cited 4,298x

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Quotes

“..the flag is green with a red spot in the center; above, the blue of the sky, the orange-tinted white of the walls, and the orange-grey of the clouds.”
“On Pissarro's advice I'm abandoning the emerald green..”
“Allow me to point out an inaccuracy in your biography of Signac, or rather, in order to set aside all doubt, allow me to specify..”
“The purity of the spectral element being the keystone of my.. ..searching for an optical formula on this basis ever, since I held a brush 1876 - 1884.. ..having read Charles Blanc in school and therefore knowing Chevreul's laws and Eugene Delacroix's precepts, having read the studies by the same Charles Blanc on the same painter [= Delacroix]”
“Knowing Corot's ideas on tone [copy of a private letter, October 28, 1875].. and Couture's precepts on the subtlety of tints (at the time of his exhibition), having been struck by the intuition of Monet and Pissarro.. .Rood having been brought to my attention in an article by w:Philippe Gille, Figaro 1881, 3.”
“Rood was in my possession the day after the appearance of Philippe Gille's book review, published by 'Le Figaro', 1881 (change of palette). I abandon earth colors from [18]82 to 1884. On Pissarro's advice I stop using emerald green (1885)”

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Works in European collections

10 objects attributed to Georges Seurat, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

La Grande Jatte

Steep rocks in Grandcamp

His Landscape

Hafeneinfahrt von Honfleur

Sunday at Port-en-Bessin Harbour

Figuren in Landschaft

Untitled

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Encyclopedic overview

Georges Pierre Seurat ( UK: /ˈsɜːrɑː, -ə/ SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: /sʊˈrɑː/ suu-RAH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 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. 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.

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Georges Seurat