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Chevreul was a French chemist who restored old tapestries. He brought a new visual twist in paintings based on how the eyes work with colour in art to create a visual image.
It is largely rendered in a criss-cross brushstroke technique known as balayé and was later re-touched by Seurat with dots of contrasting color in certain areas.
Seurat submitted Bathers to the state-sponsored Salon in 1883, but the jury rejected it. In November 1879, he started his military service at Brest Military Academy.
This 10 feet wide painting currently resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. Subsequently, Seurat and several other artists founded the Société des Artistes Indépendants, enabling him to exhibit Bathers in June of 1884. It took Seurat two years to complete this 10-foot wide painting, and he spent much time in the park sketching to prepare for the work (there are about 60 studies).
He could not produce the right hue unless he recognized the surrounding dyes. There, he made a friend of Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1935) and together they entered the École des Beaux-Arts run by Henri Lehmann, a disciple of the Neo-Classical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Seurat attended the Academy from February 1878 until November 1879.
Many times the artist visited La Grande Jatte, an island in the Seine located in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly, making drawings and more than thirty oil sketches to prepare for the final work. They later moved in together in 1889 and had their firstborn son Pierre-Georges in 1890. This is part of the reason why he joined in on the idea of a scientific approach to painting using colour.
Painter Bridget Riley has credited him with influencing her particular brand of Op art.
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It was a local art school near his home, which was ran by sculptor Justin Lequien. It has been argued that they derive from Seurat's understanding of various contemporary theories of expression, which advocated the use of particular forms and colors to convey particular types of emotion.
Oil on canvas - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1890-91
The Circus
Seurat's early paintings often feature a remarkable stillness, even with complex figure compositions, but The Circus features a scene of dynamic movement, and is typical of his late style.
His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the icons of nineteenth century-painting. He believed that lines tending in certain directions, and colors of a particular warmth or coolness, could have particular expressive effects. In the winter of 1885-86 he reworked the painting in the technique that he called "chromo-luminarism", also known as Divisionism or Pointillism.
Other works by him include circus, Eiffel Tower and Gray Weather. Blanc's book was targeted at artists and art connoisseurs. Chevreul discovered that two colors juxtaposed, slightly overlapping or very close together, would have the effect of another color when seen from a distance.