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Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Aliases:
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Professions:
Painter;
Flower painter
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Biography
(b
Paris,
2
Dec
1859;
d
Paris,
29
March
1891).
French
painter
and
draughtsman.
In
his
short
career
as
a
mature
artist
(c
.
1882–91),
he
produced
highly
sophisticated
drawings
and
invented
the
Divisionist
technique
of
painting
known
as
POINTILLISM,
which
was
taken
up
by
many
of
his
contemporaries
associated
with
Neo-Impressionism.
His
application
of
scientific
principles
to
painting
and
his
stress
on
the
surface
quality
of
his
work
have
had
lasting
effects
on
20th-century
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