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Georges Seurat
French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman
Georges Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) is a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman.
He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism.
His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) alters the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism.
It is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.