1859 -1891 · Neo-impressionism, divisionism and Parisian modernity

Points of pure color, immobile profiles, banks of the Seine and urban shows make Georges Seurat the methodical architect of neo-impressionism.

Georges Seurat was born in Paris in 1859 and studied at the École des beaux-arts, where academic drawing, Poussin and Ingres gave him a taste for rigorous composition. He was also interested in contemporary research on contrast, perception and optical mixing of colors. After drawings in Conté pencil and small landscapes painted on wood, he undertook A Swimming in Asnières. Refused at the Salon of 1884, this large canvas brought together rest workers, industrial suburbs and monumental construction. Seurat then participated in the founding of the Society of Independent Artists and met Paul Signac. With A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte, produced between 1884 and 1886, then bordered by colorful touches, he transformed modern leisure into a frieze. The juxtaposed dots and small touches must mingle in the viewer's eye, while profiles, verticals and intervals give the crowd an almost ancient stability. Félix Fénéon soon called this painting "neo-impressionism" which systematized the light without abandoning the ambition of the large painting. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of Paris. Seurat then applied his divisionism to the Channel ports and the entertainment of worked by rubbing the Tale on grainy paper, the shadow figures emerge with a density very different from the colored canvases. Died at thirty-one in 1891, Seurat left a brief but decisive career. His work unites the science of color, monumental tradition and observation of modern society. The "Georges Seurat" selection notably compares A Sunday at the Grande Jatte and A Swimming in Asnières. His reading favors composition.

Seurat does not disperse vision: he constructs the luminous vibration with the discipline of an architect, point by point and interval by interval.