LINKTV France 24 Mid-Day News March 19, 2014
He replaced impressionisms casual spontaneity with discipline and order. He used current scientific theories of color and developed a systematic method of painting called pointillism. He applied his paint by means of small dots and thereby achieved what he called optical mixture and greater luminosity. For this reason, the artists who adopted seurats technique became known as neoimpressionists. By the 1880s, there was a new generation of the avantgarde who lived and worked in an area north of the recently modernized center of paris. Seurat had his studio on the corner of tichy boulevard. Paul ...