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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 ]] | ||
| + | *[[Paul Signac]] | ||
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| + | {{DEFAULTSORT: Seurat, George-Pierre}} | ||
| + | [[Category:French Painters]] | ||
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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.
