Art · 1859–1891

Georges Seurat

French Post-Impressionist painter who pioneered the pointillism technique

Did you know?His most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, took him approximately two years to finish.

Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: suu-RAH; French:; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) 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 surface.

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