Seurat

[ sœ-ra ]

/ sœˈra /

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noun

Georges

[zhawrzh], /ʒɔrʒ/, 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.

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How to use Seurat in a sentence

He also served as the pipeline between the moneyed class and a variety of Impressionists: Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, and Seurat.
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He never kept to the spots that Signac and Seurat had given him.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
Seurat, the founder, was the only genuinely artistic man of the movement, and an early death denied him his chance to develop.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
In Seurat Gauguin saw almost completely set forth an expression which by its simplicity satisfied him.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright

They show Seurat's curious desire to give a scientific and classic basis to Impressionism.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900)|Camille Mauclair
Seurat is the only one who seems to have been influenced to any noticeable extent and yet to have remained an artist.
The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Seurat

Seurat

/ (French sœra) /

noun

Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1859–91, French neoimpressionist painter. He developed the pointillist technique of painting, characterized by brilliant luminosity, as in Dimanche à la Grande-Jatte (1886)

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