Georges Seurat
1988 / English / PDF
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Provides a critique of the painter with illustrations of his work. The book contains most of Seurat's paintings beautifully reproduced. The author uses many crayon and pencil sketches as well as color studies to illustrate the process by which Seurat came to paint two of his most famous masterpieces: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and Bathing at Asnieres. Of particular interest is the explanation of Seurat's quasi-scientific theories of color based on gradation (the movement from light to dark), hue (red and its complementary colors) and line (the movement of directions on the horizontal. Seurat believed that the relations of the three produced, according to fixed laws, certain emotions such as sadness and happiness, as well as more subjective sensations such as warm and cold.
