Freddy Carp 12 Grade Bartlett High School Anchorage,AK Grade: A November 7, 1995 Georges Seurat: The Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat was born in Paris on December 2, 1859. As a youth, he attended a municipal art school where he copied plaster casts and he then studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1878 and 1879 (Homer 7). The young Seurat was strongly influenced by Rembrant and Francisco de Goya. Seurat spent his entire life in Paris except for trips taken in the …showed first 75 words of 943 total…

…showed last 75 words of 943 total…March 29, 1891 in Paris (Blunt 22). Seurat's early death at the age of 31 cut short his career, as he was still developing as an artist and working with his discoveries. In his short life he produced about 500 drawings which alone could have established him as a master. Seurat made seven monumental paintings and 60 smaller ones (Perdrillat 198). He is remembered most for his pointillist technique and as the original theorist and most significant artist of the Neo-Impressionist movement.