Word: seurat
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Order, design, composition, balance and harmony are the principles that once guided the life and work of French painter George Seurat. In the model of the master himself, the students behind Sunday in the Park with George, which opened Friday on the Mainstage in the Loeb Drama Center, followed the same principles in their own production. Though the black-tie opening night was only at half capacity, the crowd responded enthusiastically to the stellar performance by the cast and crew...
...musical is a dramatization of Seurat’s most famous work, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” The painting employs pointillism, a technique developed by Seurat that uses small brush strokes and dots of color, which the eye blends when viewed from a distance...
...addition, she has published many articles on modern art and its creators, including studies of Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Cassatt, Seurat, Matisse and Picasso, and contemporary artists...
...that terrible emerald-green sea ... what an inspired conception!" He had read about Impressionism, too, but imagined it to be simply the use of lighter tones. In Paris he discovered such older painters as Monet and Pissarro, and met the young avant-garde of the day: Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Signac, Gauguin, Bernard. His old palette went out the window ("Last year I painted almost nothing but flowers," he wrote in 1887, "so I could get used to colors other than gray.") He experimented with Impressionist brushstrokes and pointillist "stippling" - one superb gallery here pairs off Monet's Boats...
Luck--and a yachtsman's robust health--granted Signac some 40 years more than Seurat got. But he never painted better than he did in the late 1880s and early 1890s. His best pictures of the Cote d'Azur--of Cassis, of St.-Tropez--possess a wonderful rigor, density and subtlety of color. The danger inherent in pointillism was that all those microdots, if their tonal relations were not perfectly controlled, could look like a bad case of measles. In his middle years Signac almost always avoided this. The seascapes become what they are meant to be: a vibration...