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Posted on 07/19/2023 22:41 Updated on 07/19/2023 22:56
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France 2 Article written by France 2 – A.Jacquet, F.Bazille, A.Da Silva, A.Kepeklian, L.Hodina, Images INA
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The section “Un art d’été” focuses, this Wednesday, July 19, on the painter Georges Seurat. An atypical artist, passionate about scientific progress, inventor of the so-called divisionist technique.
Every summer, Georges Seurat left Paris to set sail for Normandy. In 1888, he fell in love with Port-en-Bessin, a small authentic fishing port, far from social life. The ideal place to paint and develop a technique that combines art and science. Solitary and a bit austere, the one who was nicknamed the “notary” was obsessed with painting reality as he saw it.
The influence of photography
Passionate about scientific progress, mathematics and geometric shapes, Georges Seurat used lines, triangles and curves to structure his paintings. The artist wants to go further by using the latest discoveries in optics in painting. With the influence of a recent and revolutionary invention: photography. He then created a new pictorial current, divisionism, or pointillism. However, considered restrictive, the method did not meet with the hoped-for success.
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