Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose systematic, scientific approach to color and light revolutionized late 19th-century art. Drawing on contemporary scientific optical theories by Chevreul and Rood, Seurat developed Pointillism (or Divisionism)—applying tiny dots of pure, contrasting color side-by-side that blend optically in the viewer's eye.

His monumental composition A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) anchored the Neo-Impressionist movement with its monumental stillness and architectural balance. Seurat died tragically young at age 31, leaving behind an astonishingly influential body of monumental paintings and velvety Conté crayon drawings.