Word: seurat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thanks to Chicago grandmothers like Mrs. Potter Palmer, the impressionist-loving grande dame of Chicago society in the 1890s, to say nothing of grandfathers like Hardware Heir Frederic Clay Bartlett, who gave the museum Seurat's La Grande Jatte, the Art Institute today is the possessor of a 19th century impressionist and postimpressionist collection among the best in the U.S. Under rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.), Harvard-honed Charles C. Cunningham, 57, who took over as director a year ago after 20 years at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum, the museum has hewed to a policy...
...earliest antecedents of this breakdown of the spatial illusion in painting are the pointillist pictures of the late nineteenth century -- particularly Seurat and Signac. They tried to break down the illusion of space by treating the frame with the same minute dots of color which cover the background of the pointillist canvas. As a result, the frame fuses with the canvas, giving the impression of no frame...
...Matisse was on the verge of becoming a lawyer when--like Degas and Manet before him--he abandoned the law to paint. Matisse came to Paris in 1891 and found it vibrating with artistic activity. Seurat and Van Gogh had died only a few years before and Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Lautrec, Redon, Henri Rousseau, and Rodin were very much alive and active in the city. During his first years in Paris, Matisse studied with Gustave Moreau who was unprejudiced against experimental art even though known work was a continuation of Delacroix along traditional lines. With Moreau's encouragement, Matisse...
Along with his study of old masters, Matisse experimented with the uniques of Impressionism and with bright light and color harmonies of Seurat's "pointillism" (also called "divisionism," this theory of painting suggested that brighter secondary colors, such as green, could be obtain making a series of small patches of the primary colors--in the case of green they are blue and yellow--and allowing these colors to blend in the viewer's eye at a certain distance from the painting rather than mixing the pigments themselves...
After studying sociology and psychology at the University of Bucharest, Steinberg took up architecture in Milan. His eye was also nourished by Egyptian paintings, latrine drawings, primitive and insane art, Seurat, embroidery and Paul Klee. His first drawing was published in 1936 in Milan. "It took about ten minutes to draw," he remembers, "but when it was printed in the magazine, I took a very slow promenade along each line." Ever since, he has been taking millions of viewers along, mostly by means of The New Yorker, in which his drawings have appeared since...