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Seurat

American  
[sœ-ra] / sœˈra /

noun

  1. Georges 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.


Seurat British  
/ sœra /

noun

  1. 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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The spectacular ensemble, arranged in the order Seurat originally chose, forms a composite portrait of the harbor town and its grassy environs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

That bucolic scene is filmed in a slow pivot around the park, cinematographer Nick Morris getting a chuckle from how the image shifts from Georges Seurat to “Hellraiser.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

A photo shared to both of their Instagram profiles shows the pair sat in front of the Georges Seurat painting which the production is based on, captioned with lyrics from the show.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

Auras of migraine and epilepsy may have influenced a long list of artists, including Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Giorgio de Chirico, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat.

From Scientific American • May 26, 2023

They spend the evenings together in cafes in Montmartre with Georges Seurat, Armand Guillaumin, Camille Pissarro and his son, Lucien, and other painter friends who stop by.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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