Georges Seurat: Life and Work - Founder of Pointillism and icon of late 19th-century painting

Georges Pierre Seurat was born in 1859 and was a French post-impressionist artist who also became one of the icons of late 19th-century painting. With his work "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" he altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism. He developed the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and his artistic personality combines on the one hand his extreme and delicate sensibility and on the other hand a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. He died 1891 at the age of 31 and left his latest work "The Circus" unfinished.

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His most famous paintings are "Bathers at Asnières" (1884), "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (1884-1886), "Le Bec du Hoc" (1885), "The Lighthouse at Honfleur" (1886), "The Models (1886-1888), "Circus Sideshow" (1887-1888), "Le Chahut" (1889-1890), "Young Woman Powdering Herself" (1888-1890), "The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe" (1890) and "The Circus" (1890-1891).

Original title: The Life and Work of Georges Seurat
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