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Georges Seurat

1859 - 1891

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Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: suu-RAH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface. Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Seurat has received more than 3,172,020 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Georges Seurat is the 67th most popular painter (down from 52nd in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from France (down from 146th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Painter.

Georges Seurat is most famous for his painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Georges Seurat ranks 67 out of 2,023. Before him are Kazimir Malevich, Théodore Géricault, Alphonse Mucha, Giovanni Bellini, Francis Bacon, and Frans Hals. After him are Henri Rousseau, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Georges Seurat ranks 11. Before him are Knut Hamsun, L. L. Zamenhof, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Svante Arrhenius, and Alfred Dreyfus. After him are Yuan Shikai, Billy the Kid, Sholem Aleichem, Verner von Heidenstam, Jean Jaurès, and Alexandre Millerand. Among people deceased in 1891, Georges Seurat ranks 3. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, and Nikolaus Otto. After him are Helena Blavatsky, Herman Melville, Pedro II of Brazil, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, P. T. Barnum, Léo Delibes, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Seurat ranks 182 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis VII of France (1120), Bernadette Soubirous (1844), Louis VIII of France (1187), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Francis II of France (1544), and Vilfredo Pareto (1848). After him are Carlo Buonaparte (1746), Louis Daguerre (1787), Henri Rousseau (1844), Pope Clement VI (1291), Louis X of France (1289), and Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Georges Seurat ranks 17. Before him are Gustave Courbet (1819), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Georges Braque (1882), Jean-François Millet (1814), and Théodore Géricault (1791). After him are Henri Rousseau (1844), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Gustave Doré (1832), François Boucher (1703), Alfred Sisley (1839), and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755).

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