Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat

Author: Michelle Foa

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0300212828

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This revelatory study of Georges Seurat (1859–1891) explores the artist’s profound interest in theories of visual perception and analyzes how they influenced his celebrated seascape, urban, and suburban scenes. While Seurat is known for his innovative use of color theory to develop his pointillist technique, this book is the first to underscore the centrality of diverse ideas about vision to his seascapes, figural paintings, and drawings. Michelle Foa highlights the importance of the scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, whose work on the physiology of vision directly shaped the artist’s approach. Foa contends that Seurat’s body of work constitutes a far-reaching investigation into various modes of visual engagement with the world and into the different states of mind that visual experiences can produce. Foa’s analysis also brings to light Seurat’s sustained exploration of long-standing and new forms of illusionism in art. Beautifully illustrated with more than 140 paintings and drawings, this book serves as an essential reference on Seurat.

Seurat and La Grande Jatte
Seurat and La Grande Jatte

Author: Robert Burleigh

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2004-05-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810948112

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An analysis of the noted painting "Sunday on La Grande Jette, 1884" by French painter Georges Seurat. The discussion includes information on technique and meaning of the painting.

Seurat
Seurat

Author: Robert L. Herbert

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780300071313

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"This collection of the most influential of Herbert's writings on Seurat, long out of print, bear out the praise he has received for "his ability to mix a deep knowledge of paintings and drawings as physical objects with an acute awareness of the way they embody ideas and can be understood as social documents". This book will appeal both to the general reader and to the student of French nineteenth-century art."--BOOK JACKET.

Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat

Author: Georges Seurat

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780870707179

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Once described as "the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence," Georges Seurat's mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his short, vibrant career. This comprehensive publication surveys the artist's entire oeuvre, from his academic training and the emergence of his unique methods to the studies made for his monumental canvases. Accompanying the first exhibition in almost 25 years to focus exclusively on Seurat's drawings, this volume presents approximately 130 works, primarily the artist's incomparable cont drawings along with a small selection of oil sketches and paintings. In an effort to bridge the seemingly opposite goals of description and evocation, Seurat masses dark and light tones to abstract figures, exploits medium and paper to amplify radiating light, and engages with the Parisian metropolis, revealing urban types, the industrial suburbs and nineteenth-century entertainment. Though Seurat is perhaps best known as the inventor of Pointillism, this volume demonstrates his tremendous achievement as a draftsman and his fundamental importance to the art of the twentieth century. It includes carefully selected details of the work, as well as reproductions from pages of Seurat's sketchbooks, which have never before been published. Texts by Jodi Hauptman, Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff and Richard Thomson address specific aspects of Seurat's techniques, materials, and subject matter. They are rounded out by a chronology, a selected bibliography and a detailed checklist.

Seurat, 1859-1891
Seurat, 1859-1891

Author: Robert L. Herbert

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0810964104

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A volume which embodies an entire generation of scholarship on the artist. Seurat's brief but brilliant career is traced from his early academic drawings of the 1870s to the paintings of popular entertainments and the serene landscapes of his final years.

Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat

Author: Iain Zaczek

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1482413299

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When one thinks of Georges Seurat, one artistic technique should come to mind: pointillism. Through Seurat’s study of color and light, he came to use tiny dots to create gorgeous, unique colors. Readers see full-color photographs of some of his most famous pieces, such as A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte. Close-up images of small parts of the works call readers’ attention to interesting details, like the child in this painting who’s looking straight out of the canvas. Through clear instructions, readers can learn how to do a pointillist painting, too—if they have the patience!

Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)

Author: Peter Russell

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1913487016

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The founder of the nineteenth century French school of Neo-Impressionism, Georges Seurat devised the technique of Pointillism, portraying the play of light with tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours. A man of studious habits and a scientific mind, Seurat employed his original technique to create huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour too small to be distinguished when looking at the entire work, though when viewed from a distance, shimmered with brilliance. In spite of his short life, he left behind him an incredible body of work that would have a lasting impact on the history of modern art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Seurat’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Georges Seurat – over 250 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Seurat’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view * Includes a wide selection of Seurat's drawings – explore the artist’s varied works Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books CONTENTS: The Highlights Head of a Girl Horse Industrial Suburb Bathing at Asnières Rue Saint-Vincent, Montmartre, in Spring A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp The Bridge at Courbevoie The Models Circus Sideshow Port-en-Bessin The Eiffel Tower Young Woman Powdering Herself The Circus The Paintings The Complete Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings The Drawings List of Drawings Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set

Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat

Author: Christoph Becker

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Known as "the notary" by his contemporaries for his very proper disposition, Georges Seurat (1859-1891), was nonetheless a trailblazing artist, who devised mesmerizing effects in paint, creating what Museum of Modern Art, New York director Alfred Barr described as a "strange, almost breathless poise." Seurat's most famous painting, "La Grande Jatte" (1884), exemplifies the airy suspension of which "Pointillism" (as his style of painting-by-dabs was named) is uniquely capable, a sensation well suited to evoking in paint the sedate pace of Paris' new leisure class. For Seurat, Pointillism was also a way to attain for painting the mathematically explicable harmony of music: "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations," he declared in a letter to a friend. Seurat's style lent itself especially well to the portrayal of figures in space, and the endowing of those figures with volume and atmosphere. No other visual theme so well illustrates the tremendous innovations in Seurat's paintings and drawings as this handling of the figure, a theme which is at the heart of this new appraisal.