For his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the French painter created a new technique that used dots of colors to form an image when viewed from a distance. Steven Musil ...

To artists inspired by what they see in nature, volcanic sunsets are the holy grail of light and color. They transform placid sunsets and post-twilight glows into vibrant bloodbaths of spectral ...

The career of the nineteenth-century French painter Georges Seurat was lamentably short; he died in 1891 at the age of thirty-one, five years after completing his most celebrated achievement—A Sunday ...

In his masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” the French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat demanded that the world look at art in a shocking new way. He never sold a ...

The sea; so wild, so unknowable, so vast, so mysterious, so wet, so… paintable. And few people painted it as voraciously as the artists of 19th century France. Georges Seurat – the neo-impressionist ...

One of the iconic paintings of the Impressionist movement, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte in Paris by Georges Seurat, is often shown as the quintessential example of the “Pointillism” style, which is ...

No need to travel to New York or Paris. An excellent collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist work can be found at Carnegie Museum of Art through August 26.Impressionism in a New Light: From ...