Georges Seurat, a Sunday on La Grande Jatte.(All Levels: Looking and Learning)

School Arts | November 1, 2005| | Copyright

About the Artist

Born in Paris in December 1859 into a middleclass family with enough income to support him throughout his life, Georges Seurat began his artistic career at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After a year and a half, Seurat quit school. Following one year of compulsory military service, he returned to art, producing small-scale paintings and drawings. The early talent evident in his drawings blossomed into a highly refined and unique style of painting by the spring of 1884, when he undertook La Grande Jatte. Georges Seurat was only twenty-six when ...

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