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This book introduces kids to the life and work of Post-Impressionist French artist Georges Seurat. This great artist was best known for inventing Pointillism. If you were to look at one of his paintings closely, you would see that it is made up entirely of little colored dots. Instead of mixing red and yellow paint to make orange, for example, he would put red and yellow dots next to one another on the painting so that the viewer's eye would mix the color right on the canvas. Although Seurat died young (at age 32) and did not produce many works, what he did produce -- most notably his masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of la Grande Jatte -- has had an unending impact on the art world.
Synopsis
Meet Artist Georges Seurat Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned artists, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).
This book presents the life and career of the nineteenth-century French Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat, best known for inventing the painting technique known as Pointillism.