Georges Seurat
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Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surf
Seurat in 1888
Georges Seurat, 1889–90, Le Chahut, oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Bathers at Asnières, 1884, oil on canvas, 201 × 301 cm, National Gallery, London
Jeune femme se poudrant (Young Woman Powdering Herself), 1888–1890, oil on canvas, 95.5 x 79.5 cm, Courtauld Institute of Art
Bathers at Asnières
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Bathers at Asnières is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by the French artist Georges Pierre Seurat, the first of his two masterpieces on the monumental scale. The canvas is of a suburban, placid Parisia
Georges Seurat
…the works of Eugène Delacroix carefully, making notes on his use of color. He spent 1883 working on his first major painting – a large canvas titled Bathers at Asnières, a monumental work showing young men relaxing by the Seine in a working-class suburb of Paris. Although influenced in its use of color and light tone…
Man seated centre-left
Balayé and fine horizontal strokes
Monet, Men Unloading Coal, c.1875