A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

• Born Paris France in 1859

• Family was very wealthy so never had to work for a living

• Interest in art at a very young age

• First studied sculpture and admitted to prestigious French school at age 17

Spent a great deal of time copying art of famous painters

Interest in scientific theories on uses and effects of color and light

He was as much of a Scientist as an artist

• Used a technique called “pointillism”– Place small touches of

unmixed color side by side

– The eye mixed the colors as painting was observed

– Applied his paint in thousands of tiny dots

– Spots of color might have been squares, triangles, circles or tiny lines

– Preferred using the word “divisionism” to describe his technique

•Work was very influential

•Followers never achieved

the skill set he had

•Died suddenly in 1891 at

age 31 of meningitis

•Left behind over 400

drawings, 6 completed

sketchbooks and 60

canvases

•Had a wife and 1 year-

old son

Georges Seurat

Circus Side Show 1887-1888

Metropolitan

Museum of Art,

New York City

The Laborers 1883

National Gallery

of Art Washington

DC

-Sketch a landscape with a pencil-You will be given 3 paint colors-You will use the q-tip to paint-Dip the q-tip into the paint- (use 1 q-tip per

color)-Press down lightly for small dot & firmly for

larger dot-Fill up as much of the paper as possible with

color