Seurat

[ sœ-ra ]

noun

1. Georges [zhaw, r, zh], 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.

Seurat

/ sœra /

noun

1. SeuratGeorges18591891MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1859–91, French neoimpressionist painter. He developed the pointillist technique of painting, characterized by brilliant luminosity, as in Dimanche à la Grande-Jatte (1886)

Example Sentences

Early in the 20th century, French iconoclast Marcel Duchamp described a new “scientific spirit” for avant-garde art, noting the methodical painterly investigations of predecessors Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne.

From Los Angeles Times

In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.

From New York Times

The Fauves also freed artists from repetitious systems of paint handling — the dots, dashes and regular brush strokes of their Post-Impressionist predecessors including Seurat, Cézanne and even van Gogh.

From New York Times

Auras of migraine and epilepsy may have influenced a long list of artists, including Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Giorgio de Chirico, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat.

From Scientific American

“My No. 1 dream is to play George Seurat in ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ but that one isn’t hugely age-specific, so there’s no rush on that front.”

From Los Angeles Times