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Georges Pierre Seurat (Paris 2 décembre 1859 - Gravelines 29 mars 1891), peintre français, pionnier du pointillisme et du divisionnisme qu'on peut qualifier d'impressionnisme scientifique et qui étudie les divisions de la matière à celle de la lumière. Georges-Pierre Seurat

Georges Seurat nait dans un milieu bourgeois. Son père, un fonctionnaire, est un homme solitaire, un caractère dont hérite son fils. En 1877, il s'inscrit aux Beaux-Arts.

Il est très influencé par Rembrandt, Francisco Goya et Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ainsi que par Ingres, dont son professeur, Lehman avait été un disciple. Ses études sont interrompues par son service militaire qu'il effectue à Brest, où il réalise de nombreuses esquisses de bateaux, de plages et de la mer.

Rentré à Paris,Georges Seurat se consacre à la maîtrise du noir et blanc et commence à peindre réellement en 1882. Il achève, en 1884, Une baignade à Asnières, son premier des sept grands tableaux qu'il va peindre dans sa courte vie. Il participe à la formation de la Société des artistes indépendants, ouverte, sans jury ni récompenses, et prend la tête du néo-impressionnisme (ou pointilliste), qui réunit entre autres Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce et pendant un certain temps Camille Pissarro.

Après deux ans de travail concentré et systématisé, il termine son œuvre principale, Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte. Dans cette composition, les contrastes de l'ombre et de la lumière sont admirablement répartis dans l'espace. Le tableau donne une atmosphère de dignité monumentale, à travers l'arrangement équilibré des éléments et des figures.

Georges Seurat n'est pas un homme sociable et, au cours de la dernière année de sa vie, il coupe pratiquement tous les liens avec ses amis.

En été, le peintre réside à Gravelines, où il fait une série de paysages et met en projet son tableau Le Cirque qu'il montre inachevé au huitième Salon des Indépendants.

Il meurt subitement, pendant l'exposition, à l'âge de 31 ans, d'une angine.

Dans sa courte vie,Georges Seurat a produit sept grands tableaux, soixante plus petits, des dessins, 500 schémas et de nombreuses esquisses, ce qui est beaucoup, en raison de sa mort précoce et de l'énorme labeur qu'entraînait son procédé.

Stephen Sondheim (pour la musique et les paroles) et James Lapine (pour le livret et la direction) ont créé la comédie musicale Sunday in the park with George, à partir du Dimanche après-midi sur l'île de la Grande Jatte. Mandy Patinkin y interprète Seurat et, dans le deuxième acte, un arrière-petit-fils fictif.

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