A “strange young man” with a “passion for logical abstraction” and “an almost mathematical precision of mind”. This was how ...

Take a closer look at Seurat's 1884 masterpiece, "Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte." Georges Seurat drawing, ca. 1875 from the ROADSHOW event in Albuquerque (left), and "Sunday Afternoon on the ...

For his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the French painter created a new technique that used dots of colors to form an image when viewed from a distance. Steven Musil ...

PARIS — When Georges Seurat first unveiled “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” the Paris art world was scandalized. Some critics decried it as chaos on canvas, but others hailed it as genius. Few predicted ...

AN aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose ...

Georges Seurat, born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France, was a pioneering French painter known for developing the technique of pointillism, a method of painting with tiny dots of color that blend ...

History is a mysterious tale, unfolding one chapter at a time. With each chapter something new is discovered about our culture and lifestyle. Similarly a recent study has led to the discovery of the ...

A newly discovered trove of 16 engraved and otherwise modified limestone blocks, created 38,000 years ago, confirms the ancient origins of the pointillist techniques later adopted by 19th and 20th ...

Dec. 2 (UPI) --Google is celebrating French painter Georges Seurat, on what would have been his 162nd birthday, with a new Doodle. Seurat was born on this day in Paris in 1859. The artist is known for ...

The 38,000-year-old woolly mammoth carving next to Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte." Despite the vast amount of time between their respective creations, both use a collection of dots to ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with artwork in the style of Georges Seurat, the French painter who created Pointillism. Georges Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France to ...

6.5 x 9.75 in. (16.5 x 24.8 cm.) The first owner of Champs à Barbizon was the artist, Paul Signac, Seurat’s younger friend and direct disciple. Painted in 1882, the period of most of Seurat’s plein ...