Transcript Art Awareness First Grade Lesson 4 – George Seurat Dec 2, 1859- March 29, 1891

Art Awareness
First Grade Lesson 4 – George Seurat
Dec 2, 1859- March 29, 1891
Pointillismusing tiny dots of
different colors
next to each
other to create a
picture. The eye
mixes the colors
instead of the
painter mixing
them.
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George grew up in Paris and his family
was wealthy which allowed him to
focus on his art
He attended the School of Fine Arts in
Paris
He also served in the military
George’s parents helped him set up a
studio not far from their home
Unlike many poor artist he didn’t need
to sell his art to survive
He started painting with tiny dots
instead of mixing colors and we call this
pointillism
He felt that his way of painting would
make the colors appear more brilliant
to the viewer
His first major painting was
Bathers at Asnieres. It was a
large painting of people
relaxing near the water as
Asneires. He was proud of it
and entered it at the Salon a
French art exhibition but it
was rejected. He didn’t give
up and entered it into the
Society of Independent
Artists and presented his art
at their exhibition
The Circus
This was sadly his final
painting because he died at
a young age of 31 from what
was likely meningitis. His
paintings work a lot like
computer monitors work
today. His dots were like
the pixels on a computer
screen.
Let’s practice
with
Pointillism
using Q-tips to
create tiny
dots of color to
make a
painting.