Seurat

Geoerges-Pierre Seurat By: Olivia S.


 * =**Seurat was born on December 2nd 1859.** =
 * =**He used the technique called Pointillism. Pointillism is using small dots to make a painting.** =
 * =**He painted many pictures.** =
 * =**One of them was called A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.** =
 * =**He painted that between the years of 1884-1886.** =
 * =**He was born and worked in France.** =
 * =**The main focus of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was to focus on the people and the landscape of the painting.** =
 * =**A fun fact about Seurat is that he served in the military for his country.** =
 * =He painted 215 paintings. =
 * =His theory about using dots was to create more life in the painting. =
 * =He accomplished many thing in his life. =
 * =I chose this painting because I thought it was different and would be easy to put myself into. =
 * =I used the blending tool and the eyedropper tool to make myself apart of the painting. I used brightness and saturation effects too. =

These are some additional paintings by Seurat.




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