What are characteristics of the art of Georges Seurat?



Seurat’s artistic personality combined qualities that are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind.

What type of art is Georges Seurat known for?

Pointillism

Georges Seurat, (born December 2, 1859, Paris, France—died March 29, 1891, Paris), painter, founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours became known as Pointillism.

Which technique does Seurat use to help emphasize his subjects?





pointillism

The late nineteenth-century French artist Georges Seurat is best known for his large-scale paintings achieved using a technique called pointillism. Seurat studied the theory of color, and optical perception, and applied his studies to his painting.