Neo+Impressionism

**Famous Quote:** “Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.” He was a 19th century Frenchman, born on December 2, 1859 and died March 29, 1891. Seurat was in the painting field and, he was a Neo Impressionist and came from a wealthy family in Paris, He served a year at Brest Military Academy and returned to Paris in 1880. He shared a small studio until he could afford one of his own. For the next two years he devoted himself to the art of black and white drawing. He spent all of 1883 spending his time drawing the art picture of Brather At Asnieres! Paris Salon rejected Seurat's painting. In 1884 he and some other artists formed the Societe Des Artistes Independents. In the summer of 1884 Seurat started to work on his masterpiece, **Sunday Aftermoon** ,(above), on the Island of La Grande Jatte, it took him two years to finish his painting. When he moved into his studio he secretly lived with a young model, Madeleine Knobloch. (Austin Loutzenhiser and Timothy Mast)
 * __Georges Seurat__**