Georges-Pierre Seurat
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Georges Seurat, Jules Breton, and an Oak Park Victorian...virtually every inch of the property, from the enormous attic to the back fence, where they installed a replica of Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jette. The main floor of the house has four large rooms that could be... In this article: Georges Seurat, Oak Park, Chicago Magazine, and River Forest High School |
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PopMatters | 6 days ago
Gem Found: Dave Fischoff (Sound Affects)
...week's column, and reveals a gem in sonic collage artist Dave Fischoff. Dave Fischoff is a sonic successor to the painter Georges Seurat. He thinks in colors, paints in pixels and eyelash brushes, and connects millions of dots to create his...
In this article: Pandora, Chicago, Big Star, L.E.S. Artistes, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, MySpace, and Grandmaster Flash
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L.A. Times - The Arts | November 03, 2009
Critic's Notebook: 'The Art of the Steal: The Untold Story of the Barnes Foundation'
...by Matisse, 46 by Picasso, 21 by Chaim Soutine, 18 by Henri Rousseau, 16 by Modigliani, 11 by Degas, seven by Van Gogh, six by Georges Seurat and four each by Manet and Monet. Some are among those iconic artists' greatest works. The holdings...
In this article: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Paul Cret, and Waste
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L.A. Times - The Arts | November 02, 2009
Critic's notebook: Ingres' 'Comtesse d'Haussonville' @ Norton Simon Museum
...six decades later by an 18-year-old Georges Seurat. The worried nude, chained to a boulder, swoons. Seurat painted the copy a half-dozen years before he ventured into the very different Post-Impressionist color-dots of "Sunday Afternoon on the...
In this article: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Napoleon III, Georges Seurat, Henry Clay Frick, Norton Simon Museum, and Virgin Mary
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Science News Online | October 28, 2009
Gamma-ray observations shrink known grain size of spacetime
...Georges, please! In their efforts to unify quantum theory and gravity, theoretical physicists have likened spacetime to a Georges Seurat painting, composed of tiny dots or lumps that meld to form a seemingly smooth picture. But if...
In this article: Spacetime, Photon, Speed of light, Special relativity, Physics, Electron, Georges Seurat, Elementary particle, Electromagnetism, and CERN
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Times Online | October 24, 2009
Interiors: Wet and wild
...and anticipates that famous paintings on a bathing theme will be especially popular. It has just completed a three-wall version of Georges Seurat's Baigneurs a Asnieres that comes in several sizes, from 10cm square to 30cm square (from...
In this article: Platinum, Copper, Silver, Baigneurs a Asnieres, Georges Seurat, Villeroy & Boch, and Ferranti
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The Seattle Times | October 08, 2009
Chris Jordan's Seattle exhibit puts consumption in living color
...similar with aluminum cans (106,000 used every 30 seconds in the U.S.), although I'm not sure what the connection is between Georges Seurat's "Sunday on La Grand Jatte" and soda cans. "Ben Franklin, 2007" has a stronger...
In this article: Seattle, Pacific Science Center, United States, Photoshop, Washington State University, and Georges Seurat
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The Australian | October 02, 2009
Public Works: The Car, 1955
...influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre, W. H. Auden, Henry James and T. S. Eliot. He was also impressed by artists such as Jan Vermeer and Georges Seurat, who influenced his compositional construction and use of tonal modelling. Throughout his...
In this article: John Brack, Melbourne, National Gallery School, National Gallery of Victoria, Tax, World War II, Box Hill High School, and A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
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The Daily Northwestern | October 01, 2009
Sunday in the Park with George Opens
...opened Thursday at Shanley Pavillion. Directed by Communication sophomore Emily Maltby, the musical is based on the creation of Georges Seurat's impressionist work, "A sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jette" and features music...
In this article: Sunday in the Park with George, Email, Arts Alliance, Georges Seurat, and Stephen Sondheim
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San Francisco Chronicle | September 19, 2009
Loss of species - Maya Lin's 'What Is Missing?'
...as their sole way of looking at them. Knight's "Seurat" (2009) shows a man's hand in close-up, framing on his camera's LCD monitor Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte" (1886), a painting that resides...
In this article: Maya Lin, Georges Seurat, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Habitat destruction, and Tin
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nymag.com: Art | August 10, 2009
Teeing Up the Twentieth Century
...a breakthrough series of large, smoky drawings of Christ in modern-day settings. As fate had it, they were installed near Georges Seurat's epic, world-changing A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. Reactions to Ensor's work were mixed at best.
In this article: James Ensor, Georges Seurat, Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso, Brussels, Artists Rights Society, El Greco, and Paul Gauguin
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Description from Wikipedia:
Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting.
- Birth Date:
- December 02, 1859
- Death Date:
- March 29, 1891
- Nationality:
- French
- Field:
- painting
- Period:
- Neo-impressionism, modern art
- Works:
- Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
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