There has never been an exhibition of seascapes by GeorgesSeurat – which is odd, given that the short-lived French artist’s “marines” make up the bulk of his output ... Seurat’s chilly Channel views are ...
GeorgesSeurat died young ... As it was, Seurat painted approximately 45 paintings before his death, probably from diphtheria, in March 1891 when he was 31 ... It is clear Seurat knew what he was doing; who knows what he might have gone on to achieve?.
Banning black from their palette, Impressionists depicted shadow by deepening the color tones of a subject, while pointillists like Pissarro, Signac and Seurat placed disparate colored dots side by side, relying on the viewer’s eyes to mix them ... .