Seurat

[sœ-ra]

noun

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

Seurat

/ 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)

Example Sentences

Painting was always ahead of writing in its newness: Monet, Pissarro, Seurat and others stepped out of the 19th century well before it ended.

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Gyllenhaal also has appeared in several Broadway shows, most notably the title role of painter Georges Seurat in the 2017 revival of “Sunday in the Park With George.”

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Early in the 20th century, French iconoclast Marcel Duchamp described a new “scientific spirit” for avant-garde art, noting the methodical painterly investigations of predecessors Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne.

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In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.

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The Fauves also freed artists from repetitious systems of paint handling — the dots, dashes and regular brush strokes of their Post-Impressionist predecessors including Seurat, Cézanne and even van Gogh.

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