French painter (1859-1891)
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He painted with dots—thousands of them, placed according to optical theory—and turned a lazy Sunday by the Seine into one of the most radical images in modern art.
Georges Pierre Seurat was born in Paris on 2 December 1859, carrying a sensibility so delicate it seemed at odds with his other gift: a near-mathematical precision of mind. He devised chromoluminarism and pointillism, techniques that broke color into calculated points of pure pigment, and worked his conté crayon drawings on rough paper to similar effect. Between 1884 and 1886 he executed A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, a large-scale canvas that initiated Neo-Impressionism and bent the course of modern art away from Impressionism's spontaneity toward something more systemat…
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I knew van Gogh less intimately. I spoke to him for the first time in 1887 in a popular eatery near 'La Fourche', Avenue de Clichy, [Paris], (closed).
Signac told me of his death this way: 'He Vincent van Gogh gave himself a bullet in the ribs; it passed through his body and lodged in his groin.
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..
Signac, definitively won over and who had just modified the paintings 'The Milliner', [1885] and 'Appreteuse et garnisseuse Modes' [exhibited in May 1886], Rue de Caire, p.
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