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1859–1891 France
Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for the color-technique of pointillism.
Also known as: Seurat
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On Pissarro's advice I'm abandoning the emerald green..
The art of painting is the Art of hollowing out a canvas.
Allow me to point out an inaccuracy in your biography of Signac, or rather, in order to set aside all doubt, allow me to specify..
..the flag is green with a red spot in the center; above, the blue of the sky, the orange-tinted white of the walls, and the orange-grey of the clouds.
I painted like that because I wanted to get through to something new - a kind of painting that was my own.
They [the visitors in his studio, praising his work] see poetry in what I have done. No, I apply my method and that is all there is to it.
The frame [is no longer as in the beginning version] is in a harmony opposed to those of the tones, tints, and lines of the [motif of the] picture.
The means of expression is the optical mixture of tones, of tints (of local color and the illuminating color: sun, oil lamp, gas, etc.), that is, of the lights and of their reactions (shadows) following the laws of contrast, of gradation, of irradiation.
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