A blog about Georges Seurat, a French post-impressionist painter who was known for his innovative use of drawing media and for his painting techniques known as pointillism and chromoluminarism
Who was Georges Seurat (A brief overview)
Georges Seurat was born into a rich family in Paris. Seurat first began to study art with a sculptor named Justin Lequiene. From there Seurat began to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1878 to 1879, and from there he served in the Brest Military Academy for another year before finally returning to Paris in 1880. For the next two years he devoted himself to his master of the black and white drawing, and spent 1883 on his first major painting titled, Bathers at Asnieres, which was rejected by the Paris Salon. Afterwards he turned away from such establishments and began to ally himself with the independent artists of Paris.