This comprehensive exhibit of drawings by Georges Seurat (1859–91) reveals an artist redefining painting amid the hurly-burly of early modernism. In the late 1870s—an age when scientists had recently ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As the poet-critic Gustave Kahn put it, Seurat was "a young man crazy ...

The drawings of the Neo-Impressionist painter Georges Pierre Seurat (1859-1891), subject of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, have been called “the most beautiful painter’s drawings in ...

AN aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Painted in 1890, The Channel of Gravelines: An Evening shows Seurat’s calm sea washed in rose and violet light - The Museum of ...

Thirty-one. That’s the pitiably young age at which Georges Seurat died, in 1891 (most likely from diphtheria), an age when most of us are just beginning to wake up to the idea that life isn’t forever.

The late great Georges Seurat is known in the U.S. very largely as the painter of one picture—his big Sunday afternoon scene showing some 40 figures taking their ease on the banks of the Seine, La ...

Take a closer look at Seurat's 1884 masterpiece, "Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte." Georges Seurat drawing, ca. 1875 from the ROADSHOW event in Albuquerque (left), and "Sunday Afternoon on the ...