* Cachin, Françoise, Seurat: Le rêve de l ’ art-science, Paris: Gallimard / Réunion des musées nationaux, 1991

Chevreul worked as the director of the dye works at Les Gobelins tapestry works in Paris, where he noticed that the perceived colour of a particular thread was influenced by its surrounding threads, a phenomenon he called “ simultaneous contrast .” Chevreul ’ s work was a continuation of theories of colour elaborated by Leonardo da Vinci and Goethe ; in turn, his work influenced painters including Eugène Delacroix and Georges-Pierre Seurat.

Instead, the term embraces Seurat ’ s and his followers ’ ideals in their style of art.

Among the works exhibited were Une Baignade, Asnières by Georges Seurat and Le Pont d ’ Austerlitz by Paul Signac, and the art of Henri-Edmond Cross, Odilon Redon, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Louis Valtat, Armand Guillaumin, and Charles Angrand.

In the summer of 1884, Seurat began work on his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which took him two years to complete.

However, Bremmer advised her not to buy A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat, which turned out to be an important icon of 20th century art.

He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George and Che in the original Broadway production of Evita.

* Sunday in the Park with George ( 1984 ) – Georges Seurat / George ( Tony Award Nominee, 1984 )

" Their first collaboration was Sunday in the Park with George ( 1984 ), in which Sondheim's music evoked the pointillist painting technique of its subject, Georges Seurat.

Seurat made several studies for the large painting including a smaller version, Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ( 1884 – 1885 ), that is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

File: Georges Seurat 034. jpg | Study for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ,, 1884 – 1885, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

* A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Many items in the museum are on loan from colleges of the University, for example an important group of impressionist paintings owned by King's College, which includes Cézanne's ' The Abduction ' and a study for ' Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ' by Seurat.

Georges Seurat spent over two years painting A Sunday Afternoon, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park.

Image: Georges Seurat 057. jpg | Sunday in Port-en-Bessin.

In 1886, when Seurat first exhibited his now most famous work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, there was an overwhelming effect of negative feelings.

In 1885 Seurat made Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte used a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called " Pointillism ".

The cover painting of the original book, which was also featured in the film version, is based on Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.

He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

In 1884 he met Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, both of whom relied on a more “ scientific ” theory of painting by using very small patches of pure colors to create the illusion of blended colors and shading when viewed from a distance.

His work was distinctly different from his Impressionist works, and were on display in the 1886 Impressionist Exhibition, but under a separate section, along with works by Seurat, Signac, and his son Lucien.

* Clement, Russell T. and Houze, Annick, Neo-Impressionist Painters: A Sourcebook on Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Theo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Dubois-Pillet ( 1999 ), Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-30382-7

Kröller-Müller also collected works by other modern artists, such as paintings and works on paper by Picasso, Fernand Léger, Diego Rivera, George Seurat, Juan Gris, and Piet Mondrian.

Seurat died in Paris on 29 March 1891 at the age of 31.

Although Miller had little or no money the first year in Paris, things began to change with the meeting of Anaïs Nin who, with Hugh Guiler, would go on to pay his entire way through the 1930s including the rent for the beautiful and modern apartment at 18, villa Seurat.

Rewald focused on outstanding early Post-Impressionists active in France: on Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Redon, and their relations as well as the artistic circles they frequented ( or they were in opposition to ):

Groups corresponding roughly to the Ecdysozoa had been proposed previously by Perrier in 1897 and Seurat in 1920 based on morphology alone.

La Fédération Française de Bicrossing, which in English translates to The French Federation of Bicrossing ( FFB ) was created on March 1, 1978 by Marcelle Seurat, a motorcycle importer and distributor.

In creating the picture, Seurat employed the then-new pigment zinc yellow ( zinc chromate ), most visibly for yellow highlights on the lawn in the painting, but also in mixtures with orange and blue pigments.

* Clement, Russell T., Neo-impressionist painters, a sourcebook on Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Dubois-Pillet, Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1999.

* Rich, Daniel Catton, Seurat and the Evolution of La Grande Jatte ( University of Chicago Press, 1935 ), NY: Greenwood Press, 1969

* Georges Seurat, La Luzerne, St-Denis

Detail from Georges Seurat | Seurat's La Parade de Cirque ( 1889 ), showing the contrasting dots of paint used in pointillism.

Image: Study for La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884. jpg | Study for La Grand Jatte, 1884 Zoom

Image: Georges Seurat 023. jpg | Die Insel La Grande Jatte mit Ausflüglern, 1884

* Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte

Upon his return, he took up residence at La Villa Seurat.

Angrand joined Seurat in plein air painting on La Grande Jatte island.

Image: Georges Seurat 026. jpg | The Seine and la Grande Jatte-Springtime 1888, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Image: Seurat. jatte. jpg | Gray weather, Grande Jatte, 1888, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Image: Georges Seurat-Un dimanche après-midi à l ' Île de la Grande Jatte. jpg | Georges Seurat ( 1859 – 1891 )