Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France. He had a large interest in art his whole life. During the early 1870s he took private drawing lessons with his uncle who was a painter named Paul Haumonte. During his life, he only painted seven large paintings, devoting approximately a year to each. He also painted and drew another five hundred smaller works. Seurat was the founder of pointillism, also known as divisionism, in art. He was the first person to ever fill each centimetre of his paintings with small, colourful dots, which would only represent the colour from a distance. The quality of his paintings ascended so high that it attracted many different generations of artists, designers, archite.cts, photographers and cinematographers.
On March 29, 1891, Georges died from "choking to death" due to a throat infection, known as diphtheria. At aged 32, he was laid to rest in the Cimitiere du Pere-Lachaise in Paris, France.


The Eiffel Tower
1889









The Seine at Le Grande Jatte
1888