1. Georges SeuratPointillism By Brandon St. Lucia & Liz Magallanes

2. Georges Seurat Biography Born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France Spent his life studying color theories and different liner structures Seurat didn’t mix his colors yet he still painted with tones that brought his paintings to life Developed style known as pointillism

3. Self Portrait Seurat started his career as an impressionist artist. As he grew as an artist he found impressionism to be boring and dull. He moved away from the apparent naturalness of impressionism and developed a structure, for more epic art to depict modern and urban life. He is considered one of the most important post-impressionist painters.

4. What is Pointillism? Pointillism a style of the late 19th century based upon some Impressionist techniques and the application of scientific theories of the process of vision; begun by Seurat, who gave it the name Divisionism, it consists of using dots of unmixed color side by side so that the viewer’s eye may mix them into the appropriate intermediate color. Also called Neo-Impressionism. — Pointillist,n. — Pointillistic,adj. The concept of pointillism is to create a solid space by using dots of two or more colors in an area. The colors mix from a distance, creating a new color.

6. Created through Optical Blending

7. Placement of dots is necessary to create new hues

8. Makes paintings look textured, but really it is hundreds of tiny dots

9. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte 1886 Painted: 1886 This is the most famous piece of art recognized as Pointillism. Current Location: Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

10. Seine Grande Jatte Date: 1888Medium: oil on canvasDimensions: 26 x 32 inches Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

12. Medium: Oil on canvas

13. Current location: Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco

16. Resources http://www2.si.umich.edu/chico/Emerson/seurat.html (slide 2) http://wortleyvillage.net/postimp/G_Seurat/indexB.html (slide 3) http://www.nationalga;;ery.org .uk/artists/georges-seurat(slide 3) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pointillism (slide 4) http://www.childs.mccsc.edu/art99/art2p6.htm (slide 4) http://www.learntoart.com/index.php/archives/colour-theory/dot-painting-pointillism-in-colour/ (slide 5) http://artisword.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/georges-seurat-sunday-afternoon-on-the-island-of-la-grande-jatte.jpg (slide 6) http://www.georgesseurat.org/Sunday-Afternoon-on-the-Island-of-la-Grande-Jatte--1886.html (slide 6) http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/l107.html (slide 7) http://s922.photobucket.com/albums/ad61/abpersone/Famous%20Pieces%20of%20Art/?action=view&current=seurat2-1.jpg&newest=1 (slide 7)

17. Resources Cont’d http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Post-Impressionism/Georges-Pierre+Seurat/Georges+Seurat+-+La+Tour+Eiffel.jpg.html (slide 8) http://www.encore-editions.com/georges-seurat-french-master-painting-boats-low-tide-grandcamp-1885 (slide 9) http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/seurat/seurat_themes.html (slide 10)