Sandra Wu
Impressionist/Post-impressionist Artists 2
Dr. Stacy Lynn Tanner
HUM2020-CMB
6 March 2017
Life of Morisot and the Connection to Seurat
Short Bio According to Campbell, Berthe Morisot was born into a wealthy middle-class family, which most likely explains the early interest in the arts. Being surrounded by art and getting introduced to different styles of artwork can piques one’s interest at an early age. He states that Morisot took drawing lessons with her sister growing up. This later became a passion for Morisot into a lifelong hobby. In Higonnet’s book about Morisot, she states that it was very common for middle class girls to take art lessons during this time period instead of subjects such as the sciences, arithmetic, or history.
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On the Art Story article it describes that Seurat used color and shape to describe the world around them rather than doing realistic art. He was known for using dots and strokes to show movement and light variations in his work. Seurat drew “dark forms” and his “figures are faceless.” (Mccaughey 139). Seurat’s work was very different than Morisot’s because after observing “The Cradle” on Artsy, I can tell that she uses multiple colors in her work unlike Seurat who mainly likes to focus on a single color. There are many hues of white which creates texture and variation. The Cradle has enough details to see the facial features and detailing on clothing. Many of Seurat’s work such as “Seated Boy with Straw Hat” shows different shades of black, and is composed of dots and lines to create movement and light, but the figure is not detailed. “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86) was composed of tiny dots to mimic light.” (The Art Story). This is another famous piece of Seurat and manipulates the same type of style as the “Seated Boy with Straw Hat.” When observing Morisot’s work you can see that her paintings are composed of wide strokes, dotted in a way to create texture. This may be the only similarity to Seurat. Both of these artists had their own styles which is why they are both considered …show more content…
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Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter, as well as a fine draftsman. He was born and raised in a wealthy family in Paris on December 2, 1859. He lived a short life of thirty-one year of age, and in his time, Seurat not only invented his style of pointillism, but he also became the first Neo-Impressionist. In pointillism, Seurat used miniscule dots of various colors on a base color to produce the local color. This creates an optical mixture from afar for the viewer and makes the image livelier. As the first Neo-Impressionist, he systematically painted his works instead of the rough brushworks of the earlier Impressionists (Chu 410-411, Gage 452, Georges). Since Seurat first started to dig deep into the arts when he was merely sixteen, he really changed the modern art world within 15 years; barely half of his life! Seurat truly worked hard to get the reputation he has today and his works are unquestionably phenomenal through his techniques he used.
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