Georges Seurat

George Seurat was an innovative painter who developed the artistic style of pointillism. It consists of the placement of very small dots of color onto the canvas to form an image. Up close, the dots merge into full, bright, detailed scenes when viewed from a distance. Probably the most famous work done by Seurat is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte- a synthesis of Seurat's painstaking process. His works are not just visual but also scientific experiments with color and light. Seurat's work invites you to a different way of seeing- to see the world as fragmented.