Seurat

Georges Seurat was a painter who was interested in shape and pattern, but he approached these things in a very unusual way. He was the developer of a very scientific way of painting known as pointillism. Seurat used tiny dots of pure color, side by side to build form in his paintings. These tiny dots of paint, when side by side, give the viewer's eye a chance to blend the color optically, rather than having the colors readily blended on the canvas. During his far too short life of thirty-two years, Seurat completed seven major paintings, 40 smaller paintings or sketches, and approximately 500 drawings.