Georges+Seurat

Seurat Born in Paris on December 2, 1859 was a French painter, Georges Suerat. Suerat was born into a very wealthy family. He first studied art with Justin Lequien, a sculptor. Seurat then attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879. Then he served a year in the Brest Military Academy. After that, he returned to Paris in 1880. He then shared a small studio on the Left Bank with two student friends before moving to a studio of his own. For the next two years he devoted himself to mastering the art of black and white drawing. He spent 1883 on his first major painting. It was called Bathers at Asnieres. In the summer of 1884, Suerat started on his most famous piece of art, A Sunday on La Grande Jatta. He used the technique pointillism, the technique of painting in which small distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to make an image. Later, Georges lived secretly with model, Madeleine Knobloch. In 1890, she gave birth to their son, Pierre Georges. Despite of that, Goerges still painted. All of his oil paintings are highly detailed with brush stokes. His most famous painting, Sunday on La Grande Jatta, took two years to finish (shown above). Little Peasant Boy in Blue, another famous painting, was painted in 1882. Circus Sideshow was painted through the years 1887 and 1888. This was another famous artwork by Georges. Sadly, this neo-impressionist painter died in Paris on March 29, 1891, at age 30.