GEORGES SERAT

He shifted away from Impressionism to pointillism. He still appropriated the common themes of everyday leisure, and nature scenes, but he wanted to portray the colors more specifically, with more details. He has passionate about the science behind color, about how certain angles or combinations would create different color tonalities we se from afar. He developed a technique called “chromoliminism”, better known as pointillism, in which small dots of different colors achieved a unique color mixture.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1884

This painting took two years to complete. Seurat carefully planned the layout of the park before adding color. The scene depicts people relaxing on the island of La Grande Jatte in the Seine near Paris.

Seascape at Port en Bessin, Normandy

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1888

This oil painting depicts the cliffs above the port, along with the ocean on the right.

Sources

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/seurat-georges/
https://www.georgesseurat.net/seascape-at-port-en-bessin-normandy.jsp