Georges Seurat
Hello September!
Georges Seurat, the inventor of Pointillism, is famous of using short, unblended, strongly colored brushstrokes to create a vivid and vibrant work. In this work, distant farm buildings and houses are seen across a field of alfalfa (luzerne), punctuated throughout by red poppy flowers. This is part of the broad plain, which in the 19th century, still separated Paris from Saint-Denis (now a northern suburb of the capital).
P.S. Another Seurat work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, altered the direction of Modern Art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting. You can buy it as a print in the DailyArt Shop! Also, we can share everything you need to know about A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. :)
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