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Georges Seurat

1859 - 1891

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Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: suu-RAH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface. Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Seurat is the 82nd most popular painter (down from 67th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from France (down from 182nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Painter.

Georges Seurat is most famous for his painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Georges Seurat ranks 82 out of 2,023. Before him are Alfred Sisley, Gustave Doré, Bob Ross, Jackson Pollock, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. After him are Berthe Morisot, Canaletto, Bronzino, Max Ernst, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and François Boucher.

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Among people born in 1859, Georges Seurat ranks 10. Before him are Henri Bergson, L. L. Zamenhof, Knut Hamsun, Edmund Husserl, Svante Arrhenius, and John Dewey. After him are Alfred Dreyfus, Yuan Shikai, Billy the Kid, Verner von Heidenstam, Sholem Aleichem, and Alexandre Millerand. Among people deceased in 1891, Georges Seurat ranks 4. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, Nikolaus Otto, and Helena Blavatsky. After him are Pedro II of Brazil, John A. Macdonald, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, P. T. Barnum, Herman Melville, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Seurat ranks 241 out of 6,770. Before him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Richard II of England (1367), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Louis X of France (1289), and Nicéphore Niépce (1765). After him are Bernard Arnault (1949), Léon Foucault (1819), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), George Sand (1804), Gustave Le Bon (1841), and Berthe Morisot (1841).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Georges Seurat ranks 22. Before him are Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Henri Rousseau (1844), Alfred Sisley (1839), Gustave Doré (1832), and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796). After him are Berthe Morisot (1841), François Boucher (1703), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Honoré Daumier (1808), and Paul Signac (1863).

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