Seurat

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Georges Seurat (18591891) was only 31 when he died, but his short life blazed with inspiration, vision, and creativity and altered the course of European painting.

A keen student of the interplay between light and color, Seurat studied Delacroix, in particular, as a student at the cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His studies led him to develop the concept of Neoimpressionism, which in turn, resulted in the radical approach of Divisionism. This technique, which informs his two best-known pieces Bathers at Asnires and A Sunday on La Grande Jatte 1884, used pointillism to laboriously develop images that shimmered with luminescence and movement.

In this accessible and enjoyable introduction to Seurats life and work, we meet an artist driven by a profound need to articulate nature, harmony, and the simple pleasures of life in dense, kinetic tones and lines.

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Hajo Dchting studied art history, philosophy, and archaeology in Munich, where he gained his doctorate in 1981 with a thesis on Robert Delaunays Windows series. After working in museum and adult education, he moved on to teaching posts and guest professorships at the universities of Munich, Kassel, Leipzig, Saarbrcken, and Mainz. Dchting has published numerous articles on the art of the modern era, color theory, and the teaching of art, and has authored a number of TASCHEN titles, including Paul Czanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Georges Seurat.