French1859–1891
Georges Seurat
The painter who built pictures from tiny dots of pure colour, a method called pointillism. He died at thirty-one, but his method shaped Neo-Impressionism.
A life in paintings
- 1859Born
- 1881
- 1884The Salon des Indépendants
A new annual exhibition with no jury opens in Paris. Anyone who pays can show.
Source: WikipediaWorked with Paul SignacParisSeurat and Signac met at the founding of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1884 and together developed Neo-Impressionism; after Seurat's early death in 1891 Signac became its chief theorist.
Source: Wikipedia - 1886The last Impressionist exhibition
Seurat shows a huge picture made of dots, and the group splits over it.
- 1889The Paris World’s Fair
The Eiffel Tower opens for the Exposition Universelle, and Paris shows itself as the capital of the modern world.
Source: Wikipedia - 1891Died
Circles
Exhibition · Paris · 1874
Impressionist exhibitions
The eight independent group shows, 1874-1886. Pissarro alone showed at all eight; Cassatt at four; Renoir 1874, 1876, 1877, 1882; Seurat and Signac only at the 8th (1886). Manet never exhibited with them.
- Alfred Sisley
- Camille Pissarro
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Mary Cassatt
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Society · Paris · 1884
Société des Artistes Indépendants
Jury-free annual salon founded 1884 by Seurat, Signac, Dubois-Pillet, Redon and others. Home of Neo-Impressionism; Henri Rousseau first showed there in 1886.
- Fernand Léger
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Maximilien Luce
- Paul Signac
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
Where to see them
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
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