Georges Seurat was a French painter perhaps best known for creating the masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, a pastoral scene featuring Parisians enjoying a park.
After his first major painting, the impressionist-influenced Bathers at Asnières, was rejected by the Paris Salon in 1884, Seurat went to work on A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
The Doodle showcases the pointillism technique, showing the Google logo gradually transformed into Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
For his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the French painter created a new technique that used dots of colors to form an image when viewed from a distance.
Instead of mixing colors on a pallet and then applying them to the canvas, Seurat used a technique he helped originate called pointillism, in which distinct dotlike strokes of color that blend into an image when viewed from a distance.
Using his pointillist technique, Seurat began applying thousands of tiny dots and dabs to the mural-size canvas.
With a keen interest in the science of art, Seurat began studying color theory, perception and the psychological power of line and form.
The painting, depicting Parisians strolling and resting in an island park on the Seine River, took two years to complete and is now part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He was particularly influenced by the writings of French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul and American physicist Ogden Rood and incorporated their scientific approach to color and optical effects into his paintings.
Seurat sketched sculptures and copied the old masters but soon grew disenchanted with the conventional academic approach and left the school in November 1879 to study on his own.
To honor his influence, Google is dedicating an animated Doodle to Seurat on his 162nd birthday.
Georges Pierre Seurat was born in Paris on Dec.
The painting was the inspiration for the Broadway musical Sunday in the Park With George.
2, 1859, and began art lessons as a teenager before eventually enrolling at the prestigious fine arts institution École des Beaux-Arts in 1878.
Seurat's life was cut short in 1891.
He was particularly influenced by impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro and how they represented light and atmosphere in their paintings.
His innovative style gave rise to the avant-garde art movement neo-impressionism and would forever change the art world.
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He died at the age of 31 from a brief illness that may have been meningitis or pneumonia.
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