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    George Seurat

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    connected him to the avant-garde group‚ “Les Vingdt” in Brussels. In 1887‚ Seurat exhibited seven of his works there. His collaboration with Signac led to the foundation and development of Neo-Impressionism‚ the artistic movement can also be known as Pointillism or Divisionism. Seurat himself preferred the term Divisionism. Seurat was a shy man‚ who lived a modest lifestyle. Through his life he remained abstinent from alcohol‚ or any substances and stayed totally devoted to his art. He was also known to

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    painted in 1886‚ before Vincent moved to Paris. This is the typical kind of Vincent ’s earlier painting style‚ using melancholy colors‚ which are characteristic of traditional Dutch painting. In 1887‚ Vincent was trying to use Pointillism for his “Self Portrait”. Pointillism is a painting technique which was created by the artist Georges Seurat. However‚ Vincent failed at imitating “ Seurat ’s patient and analytical approach to the technique” ( The History in Self Portraits). Another self portrait

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    Van Gogh and The Representation of Happiness Through His Own Bedroom Vincent Van Gogh‚ Bedroom in Arles‚ 1889‚ Oil on canvas‚ currently at the De Young Museum (San Francisco)‚ “Van Gogh‚ Gauguin‚ Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay”Exhibition. On a smaller canvas than two other similar paintings‚ Vincent Van Gogh carefully painted for the third time his bedroom in Arles‚ a charming town in the south of France‚ and thus created this approximately 22

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    A Compare/Contrast of Monet’s Grainstack(Sunset) and van Gogh’s The Sower In this essay I will compare and contrast two paintings. The first is Grainstack (Sunset)‚ painted by Claude Monet in 1891. The second is The Sower‚ which was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888. Both paintings were painted around the same time and are very similar in style and subject‚ but their differences illustrate the change that was happening from the Impressionist to the Post-Impressionist movement. Just beginning

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    sponsored exhibition in 1883‚ but was rejected the following year so he along with other artists founded the Salon des Independants‚ a series of unjuried exhibitions. In the mid-1880s‚ Seurat developed a style of painting that came to be known as pointillism. Rather than blending colors together on his palette‚ he dabbed tiny strokes or points of pure color onto the canvas. When he placed colors side by side‚ they would appear to blend when viewed from a distance‚ producing a shimmering effect through

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    HUM112 Week 8 Assignment

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    Art Pieces for the Office Sarah Ferreira December 25‚ 2014 Professor Mario del Carril Art Pieces for the Office When people look at pieces of art for the office‚ they should pick pieces that will not only be appreciated by the people that work there but also the clients that visit the areas these are being put on display. They are the impressionism and the post-impressionism eras. These periods have been touched by a variety of artists that use new techniques in order to paint what they were interested

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    Post-Impressionist painters were fond of using color to portray certain emotions in their works. They spent more time on their paintings to try to keep lasting impressions of their subjects‚ rather than being speedy in order to replicate fleeting scenes onto their canvases. A lot of times‚ dark‚ cool colors are made to show darker emotions‚ and light‚ warm colors are added where happy emotions radiate out in a painting. Contrast in colors was also used to help distinguish different feelings between

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    Who Is Vincent Van Gogh?

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    Vincent van Gogh displays a large transition in the composition of his works towards his late career. While his early works were composed of dark colors‚ with a focus in browns and blacks‚ van Gogh developed a more colorful palette‚ larger painterly strokes‚ and a more diverse array of content towards his late career. Julie York states in her article‚ “His penetrating self-portraits… lend insight to human character and to van Gogh’s uncompromising vision.” Between 1886 and 1889 his self-portraits

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    Georges Seurat

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    Artist: Georges Seurat. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 170 cm × 141 cm (66.92 in × 55.12 in). Movement/Style: Post-Impressionism/Pointillism(divisionist). Location: Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo‚ Netherlands. The Analysis: - Appears in the painting‚ the dancers‚ the musicians and the crowd. - It is obvious that the painting was done using the pointillism method. - This painting shows the artist’s interest in combining between light‚ forms and clarity of emotions. - In the lower right of

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    Why is the painting unique? George Seurat’s painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte" is a widely known painting in the era of impressionism with the technique known as pointilism. This painting is so unique because it is a painting that has taken so much time and careful thought to make. It was a long process for George Seurat to make this painting‚ two years. A painting make by moving your brush around is an easy painting‚ but George Seurat had to use dots to create his masterpiece

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