Essays Tagged: "Georges Seurat"

Seurat

ary of 16, 1890his mistress Madeleine Knobloch who was 21, presented him a son, whom henamed Pierre-Georges Seurat. During that year Seurat completed Le Chahutwhich was of a night club scene with men ... d drawn.On Easter Sunday 1891, Seurat died of infectious angina. Shortly afterSeurat's son , Pierre-Georges Seurat contracted his father's illness and diedon April 13, 1891. Seurat was once asked If h ...

(2 pages) 130 1 3.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Georges Seurat: The Neo-Impressionist

Freddy Carp12 Grade Bartlett High SchoolAnchorage,AKGrade: ANovember 7, 1995Georges Seurat: The Neo-ImpressionistGeorges Seurat was born in Paris on December 2, 1859. As a yout ... 's technique and began to do small paintings of peasants, stone breakers, and other people at work. Georges Seurat rebelled against the empirical realism and spontaneous nature of Impressionism with t ... ter he included 'scientific' formulas he had developed to achieve pointillistic results (Homer 210).Georges-Pierre Seurat died on March 29, 1891 in Paris (Blunt 22). Seurat's early death at the age of ...

(4 pages) 103 0 3.0 Nov/1995

Subjects: Art Essays

CONFUCIUS, GANDHI AND THE AESTHETICS OF VIRTUE

utwardly), yet they act very ugly showing that inside they are immoral or devious.I compare this to Georges Seurats painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". From a distance you ...

(2 pages) 72 0 3.7 Sep/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Vincent Van Gogh.

dern painting he organized in London. The most important postimpressionists were the French artists Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cezanne; and the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.In this essay ... art dealer; soon introduced him to artists such as Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Camille Pisarro and Georges Seurat. Under the influence of impressionism, van Gogh lightened his brushstrokes and used b ...

(4 pages) 158 1 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Postimpressonist Art

e of art. Soon after he painted these landscapes, he committed suicide in a field close to his home.Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was a postimpressionist artist whose life was very short. Seurat took an ...

(7 pages) 125 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

From Realism to Modernism

vas over and above its function as representation.Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Georges Seurat, 1884-1886Early Impressionist painters were radicals in their time, breaking many of ... ary and transient aspects of sunlight.In the 1880s, in the wake of impressionism, the French artist Georges Pierre Seurat contributed to French painting by introducing a more systematic and scientific ...

(8 pages) 220 0 5.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

A brief look at Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Grang Jatte" and "Young Woman Powdering Herself."

Much like the tiny dots of color that make up one of Georges Seurat's stunning successes, there are too, the influences of a variety of past masters insp ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.7 Dec/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The life of Vincent van Gough

ly, he adopted the brilliant hues found in the paintings of the French artists Camille Pissarro and Georges Seurat.In 1888 van Gogh left Paris for southern France, where, under the burning sun of Prov ...

(3 pages) 41 2 4.3 Oct/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Impressionism and Post Impressionism

wanted to put emphasis on geometric forms and bring in unnatural colors to their paintings.As with Georges Seurat, Chahut (1889-90) has a deeper richer color and straighter more defined lines and sha ... y Museum. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. <http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manet_bar/>. Image.Seurat, Georges: Le Chahut. Paris: Nicolas Pioch, 2002. Painters. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.ibiblio. ...

(2 pages) 0 0 0.0 Dec/2012

Subjects: Art Essays