“White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge: bring order to the whole. Through design. Composition. Balance. Light. And harmony.”* Opening lines spoken by Seurat, “Sunday in the Park With George.” ...

For his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the French painter created a new technique that used dots of colors to form an image when viewed from a distance. Steven Musil ...

AN aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose ...

The late great Georges Seurat is known in the U.S. very largely as the painter of one picture—his big Sunday afternoon scene showing some 40 figures taking their ease on the banks of the Seine, La ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Painted in 1890, The Channel of Gravelines: An Evening shows Seurat’s calm sea washed in rose and violet light - The Museum of ...

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an ...

To artists inspired by what they see in nature, volcanic sunsets are the holy grail of light and color. They transform placid sunsets and post-twilight glows into vibrant bloodbaths of spectral ...

Google has replaced their homepage logo with artwork in the style of Georges Seurat, the French painter who created Pointillism. Georges Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France to ...

Seurat knew many things, the sacred laws of common sense, which we neglect no doubt because they are too simple. That it is not instinct that composes, but intellect; that instinct—genius—proposes and ...