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Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was only 31 when he died, but during his short life he created hundreds of drawings, oil sketches, and paintings on canvas that introduced a fresh perspective in European painting.As a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he carefullly observed the work of Delacroix and became fascinated with the interplay between light and color. In doing so, he developed Divisionism, using small dabs of paint from the point of the brush to create pointilist images that shimmered with luminescence and hinted at movement.In this accessible introduction to Seurat, meet an artist driven by a need to capture nature and the simple pleasures of life through a new language of painting.
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Hajo Düchting (1949–2017) studierte Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und Archäologie in München, wo er 1981 über Robert Delaunays „Fenster-Bilder“ promovierte. Anschließend übernahm er Lehraufträge und hatte Gastprofessuren an den Universitäten München, Kassel, Leipzig, Saarbrücken und Mainz inne. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Publikationen zur Kunst der Moderne, Farbtheorie und Kunstdidaktik. Bei TASCHEN sind erschienen: Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky und Georges Seurat.
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Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was only 31 when he died, but during his short life he created hundreds of drawings, oil sketches, and paintings on canvas that introduced a fresh perspective in European painting.As a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he carefullly observed the work of Delacroix and became fascinated with the interplay between light and color. In doing so, he developed Divisionism, using small dabs of paint from the point of the brush to create pointilist images that shimmered with luminescence and hinted at movement.In this accessible introduction to Seurat, meet an artist driven by a need to capture nature and the simple pleasures of life through a new language of painting.
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„Seurats Werk ist ähnlich ansprechend wie das Hören einer Symphonie.“
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"Seurats Werk ist ähnlich ansprechend wie das Hören einer Symphonie." Félix Fénéon
