Research Paper On Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was the leader of neo-impressionism .Neo – impressionism is an art movement emerged in France from 1886 to 1906 . Georges

Seurat was interested in studying painting techniques based on sciences and optics

.George Seurat , Paul Signac ,Camille Pissarro and Lucien Pissarro were the most known artistes of neo-impressionism .Neo-impressionism found that separation of colors gives more clarity and Vitality of color .He created a new way in painting called pointillism which brushstrokes used for painting instead of traditional way of painting based on mixing colors .George Seurat also used black crayon in big number of his drawings .In his crayon sheets , he depended on abstract art using black tones and he demonstrated

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque ) :

Pointillism technique was used in this painting which the whole painting consists of tiny dots of colors .It was drawn from 1887 to 1888 .Its medium is oil on canvas .Its dimensions are 99.7 x 149.9 cm . This painting was the first nocturnal painting of Georges Seurat . He represented a show in a circus in the night time in Paris .

Singers , musicians in the painting introduce a show and audience are queued for listening and enjoying the show . Georges Seurat drew six major figure paintings in his short career . Circus Sideshow painting is one of them . Georges

Seurat made a multiple versions of this painting . This one -analyzed here - represents the show in the night which calmness and darkness dominated more because of more using of dark colors .There is another version represents the show during the day and he used more brighter colors in it

He used vertical lines which gave more length in the painting .Also , he used some horizontal line to define some shapes and used them also in the background . This leaded to balancing in the painting .

2-Shape :

Shape is a two-dimensional composition .He used both organic and geometric shapes . Geometric shapes appear in rectangles in the background and in some objects in the painting .Also ,organic shapes appear in the tree of the left side , hats of audience ,singers, performers of show and in decorative elements in the upper part of the painting .He centered the basic musician and gave him the biggest size to show him but gave a smaller size for audience .A looker to the painting can see more crowd in the down part which audience exist .Using both geometric and organic shapes added a value to the painting , made balance and depicted reality which both shapes actually exist .

3-Space:

Positive and negative spaces:

Positive space is the area contains primary element like the musician in the middle , performers and tree .Negative space is the area around elements which represents the background .Here it is obvious that there is almost equally positive and negative area which makes observer's eye feels reliving