Georges Seurat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georges Seurat

French painter

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1859

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1891

Profession: painter, drawer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Georges-Pierre Seurat (UK: SUR-ah, -?uh, US: suu-RAH, French: [???? pj?? sœ?a]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist.
He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism.
While less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation.
Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be 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.