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Seurat
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 17-adult
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Availability:
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Additional information
Order number: 416
Georges Seurat had a brief working life during which he produced six major compositions on the theme of modern urban life. The first two, Bathers at Asnières and Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, established him as a leading figure in the avant-garde of the 1880s. The combination of innovatory and classical qualities in his work in terms of formal design make him a forerunner of the geometric and abstract artists of the twentieth century. However Seurat's style of composition and his `Pointillist,' or `divisionist,' technique are not merely ends in themselves, but a means to an end - that of critically describing the modern world.
Georges-Pierre Seurat Bathers, Asnières
Credits -
Director
Tony Coe
Presenter/Writer
Tom Crow
Open University/BBC
