Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat is known as the pioneer of the Neo-Impressionist movement Pointillism - a style of strategically painting or drawing hundreds of small dots onto a canvas. It was his discovery that contrasting, or complementary, colors can optically mix to create even more vivid scenes than by mixing paint alone. Seurat abandoned the Impressionistic idea of painting a “fleeting moment”, and instead rendered what he regarded as the essential and unchanging in life. Seurat’s most recognized and praised work is “A Sunday Afternoon on La Grand Jatte” - a busy scene of well-to-do Parisians enjoying a relaxing afternoon on the Seine river.