FAH245H1 Lecture Notes - Georges Seurat, Pointillism, Color Theory
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The seed of what is going to become a full blown impressionist painting style. They look like they are working in an assembly line instead of a field. Horizontal lines divide the painting into a grid, clearly marked zones. Picture shows the initial signs of what will become seurat"s defining artistic technique: pointillism (turning painting into industrial symptoms of design) Georges seurat, place de la concorde, winter (ca. Mechanical movement of drawbridge that can be endlessly repeated in the same precise way every time. By the 1880"s the river seine was a leisure space that didn"t require expendable capitol. The presence of industry is still here in the painting. A plume of smoke coming out of a tall chimney in the background, uses the same colours as he uses to make the skin of the bathers in the water. Metaphorically and literally, look at the bathers as products of the industrial system.
