Georges Seurat

The Channel of Gravelines (1890)

Bathers at Asnieres (1884)

 

Relevance to my work:

Seurat invented the pointilist style. Pointillism shows the gradual change of tone of colours through pure coloured dots. This way of creating detail and tone within the work is a way that I have worked on my whiteboards. The detail that this style provides both reflects the detail of the human body and shocks the viewer that this amount of detail is created in a medium that is so fragile, reflecting the vanitas theme I am focussing on. 

 

"'Bathers at Asnières' is an important transitional work. It shows him developing the application of his novel pointillist technique to a large work on the scale of History painting."

The National Gallery