Georges Seurat Prints Paintings Posters

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Nude Art Print

The Painter Aman-Jean As a Clown

Pushing in Poles Giclee Print

Model from Back Giclee Print

Model from Front Giclee Print

The Circus Giclee Print

Bathers at Asnieres Giclee Print

La Maria at Honfleur Giclee Print

Sunday Afternoon on Island of La Grande Jatte

Beach at Bas Butin Honfleur Giclee Print

The Models Giclee Print

Five Male Figures Possible Preparatory Sketch Bathers at Asnieres

Seurat had been born in Paris, France to a affluent family. Georges father, Antoine Seurat, had been a legal official originally from Champagne while Georges mother, named Ernestine Faivre, was from Paris. Seurat's first lessons in art were with Justin Lequien, a sculptor. Seurat enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts between 1878 to 1879. Following spending year with Brest military academy in 1880, Seurat went back to Paris. While in the city the artist shared a humble studio located in the Left Bank region along with two friends who were also student friends. He then relocated to his own studio. For the succeeding two years Seurat dedicated himself to developing his skill in drawing in black and white. He passed 1883 creating his first significant art work, it would be the immense piece called Bathers at Asnieres.

River Landscape with a Boat Giclee Print

Le Crotoy Looking Upstream Giclee Print

Farm Women at Work Giclee Print

Women on River Bank Giclee Print

Stone Heap Giclee Print

Once the Paris Salon judging panel had refused his painting, Seurat rejected such authoritative organizations, alternatively he turned to the independent painters of the Parisian art world. In 1884 he and a group of painters, among them had been French pointillist painter Maximilien Luce, organized the Society of Independent Artists. It was within this circle Seurat encountered and became friends with companion French neo-impressionist painter Paul Signac. Seurat talked over his new thoughts regarding the use pointillism as a painting technique with Signac, who later on created art works in the like artistic style. Throughout the summer of 1884 Seurat set out to create his masterpiece, a painting called Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. This painting would take the artist two years to finish.

Seurat afterward relocated away from the Boulevard de Clichy to another studio close by, however it was in a quieter location. Here he and Madeleine Knobloch, a young model, lived in secret. Madeleine's figure can be seen with Seurat's painting titled Jeune femme se poudrant. In 1890 Madeleine bore to his son, who had been called by the Pierre Georges. It would not be until two days prior to his dying that Georges presented his family to his parents. Not long following his death, Madeleine delivered their second son who died at either birth or shortly thereafter. The second child's name remains unknown.

What was to cause Seurat's death is unknown, and tit has been thought to be to a variety of meningitis, pneumonia, contagious angina pectoris, and diphtheria, the latter being the most likely. His oldest son passed away two weeks afterward from an equal disease. Seurat's final challenging painting, called The Circus, had been left incomplete upon his death.

Seurat chose the essence a color theory belief in a scientific view of creating his art work. He felt that the artist might apply color to produce harmony and feeling in a painting in the equivalent manner in which a musician practices contrast and fluctuation to form harmonious music. Seurat hypothesized that the scientific use of color had been similar to any other natural law, a theory he had been determined to demonstrate. He believed that understanding of senses and visual laws should be practiced to design a new language of painting founded upon its individual set of heuristic rules therefore he proceeded demonstrate such a language utilising lines, color vividness and color outline. Seurat named the language Chromoluminarism.