[ebooks] Klimt: Drawings 126 Colour Plates by Maria Peitcheva at Arts-Photography

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An important Post-Impressionist French painter; Georges Seurat moved away from the apparent spontaneity and rapidity of Impressionism and developed a structured; more monumental art to depict modern urban life. Seurat studied avant-garde painting techniques; especially Impressionism and the latest scientific theories pertaining to light and color. From 1885 to 1886 he developed the divisionist depicting. This new style; which consisted of systematically applied small touches of un-modulated color; was based on contemporary optical theories of color relationships. For several of his large compositions; Seurat painted many small studies. For his study drawings hee used black Conteacute; crayon to create gradations of tone on the textured paper; achieving effects akin to those in his pointillist paintings; in which he juxtaposed dots of pure colors that blended optically to produce another color.