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| − | [[Image:Seurat Jatte.jpg|thumb|300px|Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]'''George-Pierre Seurat''' (1859 – 1891) was a [[French]] Neo-Impressionist [[painter]], known for being good with colors. He applied the theories of [[Eugene Chevreul]] to create a technique known as [[pointillism]], whereby small dots of color appear to combine to create the illusion of entirely different colors.
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| − | His masterpiece, ''Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', hangs in the [[Art]] Institute of Chicago. Its first public appearance was in Paris at the eighth [[Impressionist]] exhibition in May, 1886.
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| − | [[Image:Seurat Paradetl.jpg|thumb|left|The Side Show, Detail, 1888.]]
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| − | == See also ==
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| − | *[[Toulouse-Lautrec| Henri Toulouse-Lautrec ]]
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| − | *[[Paul Signac]]
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| − | [[Category:French Painters]]
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