Georges Seurat
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"Georges-Pierre Seurat" was a France/French Post-Impressionism/Post-Impressionist Painting/painter and drawing/draftsman.

He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. His large-scale work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century History of painting/painting.

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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . . people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.