FAH245H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Gleaners, Georges Seurat, Post-Impressionism
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Millet, the gleaners - what is not new is the subject matter, it is well established but it points us to the idea that he will be using a familiar motif in an unfamiliar way. Seurat, study for bathers at asnieres know he"s doing something different from monet he isn"t dismissing the sketch and saying it"s the finished product - he uses it tra- ditionally, to test ideas and gather a sense of space. 7 this - he thought he could account for every colour and that his work was assembling the different colours on the grid of his painting. Seurat would have been aware of and interested in - they are photos that take place over a period of time and are then condensed they make human movement look like mechanical movement. Seurat, les poseuses, 1886-88 the title means models. Signac, gasometers in clichy, 1886 one of a series he made in the industrial suburbs of paris.
