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Georges-Pierre Seurat & W.H. Brown
Meet The Masters Georges-Pierre Seurat & W.H. Brown
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
Was born in Paris, France in As a young man, Georges worked very hard to find a new way of painting that had never been seen before.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
To make his paintings look different and fresh, Georges Seurat used scientific ideas that he discovered about color, line, and shapes.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
He found that, rather than mixing the colors, he could place tiny dots of different colors next to each other on the canvas and the eye would mix the colors.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
He called this way of painting Divisionism. Today we call it Pointillism. Seurat felt that this new way of painting would make the colors appear more brilliant to the viewer.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat- Legacy
Seurat gave the world of art new ideas and concepts in color and how the eye works together with color.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat
Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte
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Eiffel Tower
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Gray Weather
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W. H. Brown
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W. H. Brown Is known as a primitive painter.
Primitive Painters- is a class of art made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists.
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W. H. Brown W.H. Brown was actively concerned with design and pattern, movement, and the relating of personal experience. Very few 19th century primitive paintings exist today. We now admire primitive art for its brilliant colors and feeling of excitement.
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Compare Bareback Riders, Brown The Circus, Seurat
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