CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Georges Seurat, Pointillism, Brushstrokes
18 Dec 2016
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Georges seurat: a sunday at la grande jatte. Pointillism beyond the impressionists: random choppy brushwork into a systematic, even scientific, method of paint application. This is seurat"s final study for his monumental painting of parisians at leisure on an island in the. Contrasting pigments are woven together with small, patchy brushstrokes, whereas in the mural- sized park scene which debuted two years later at the 1886 impressionist exhibition . Seurat used tighter, dot-like dabs of paint, a technique which came to be known as pointillism (from the french word point, or dot). He preferred the term divisionism the principle of separating color into small touches placed side-by-side and meant to blend in the eye of the viewer. This is the definitive study (dorra and rewald 138; de hauke 142) for the large painting exhibited at the 8th impressionist exhibition of 1886, and now in the art institute of chicago (dr139; h162).
