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Talking about color…

Talking about color… rn March 29, 1991, marked the centenary of the death of George Seurat, the French painter who by reputation was the most “scientific” of painters. The event was marked by, among other things, a major retrospective exhibition of his work (the first since 1958, earlier in the year in Paris at the Musee d’Orsay and recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York).’ During his tragically short lifetime (he was 32 years old when he succumbed suddenly to a virulent form of diphteria) Seurat produced six major large canvases, each of them creating a sensation, many smaller finished paintings, a large number of colored sketches and drafts for his major works, and hundreds of conte crayon drawings on paper. While consisting of 231 of his works, the exhibition only contained two of his major canvases. Seurat attended art school in Paris at a time in the late 1870s when impressionism was in full swing. He was schooled in the classical tradition; among the artists he admired were lngres and Delacroix. He suffered the fate of many pioneers in his time by being denied official recognition and exhibition space at the Safoti and having to exhibit his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Color Research & Application Wiley

Talking about color…

Color Research & Application , Volume 17 (3) – Jun 1, 1992

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0361-2317
eISSN
1520-6378
DOI
10.1002/col.5080170304
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Abstract

rn March 29, 1991, marked the centenary of the death of George Seurat, the French painter who by reputation was the most “scientific” of painters. The event was marked by, among other things, a major retrospective exhibition of his work (the first since 1958, earlier in the year in Paris at the Musee d’Orsay and recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York).’ During his tragically short lifetime (he was 32 years old when he succumbed suddenly to a virulent form of diphteria) Seurat produced six major large canvases, each of them creating a sensation, many smaller finished paintings, a large number of colored sketches and drafts for his major works, and hundreds of conte crayon drawings on paper. While consisting of 231 of his works, the exhibition only contained two of his major canvases. Seurat attended art school in Paris at a time in the late 1870s when impressionism was in full swing. He was schooled in the classical tradition; among the artists he admired were lngres and Delacroix. He suffered the fate of many pioneers in his time by being denied official recognition and exhibition space at the Safoti and having to exhibit his

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Published: Jun 1, 1992

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