He would not show anyone his paintings, they were all color and had a different type of style, dotting.
====Biography====
Georges Seurat grew up in a well-off family in Paris, France. He was born December 2, 1859. He is well known for the painting: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Most of his paintings were about places and people.
Georges Seurat had a different childhood than everyone else. He became an artist after looking at many paintings. When he was young he painted. He would not show anyone his paintings. He found he loved art at a very young age and his parents engaged in it
and paid for his art related lessons. How Georges Seurat studied to
become an artist is that he studied sculptors at the age of 17 1/2.
After that he attended Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study painting instead
of attending college.
Style
His paintings were very unusual. He painted by putting dots of paint
making shapes. He did a lot of research on the colors not just the
painting. His painting style is known as pointillism. All of his
painting have the same type of style.
His style was called French neoimpressionist. He created the
pointillist technique of painting in tiny dots of pure color. He did
lots of dotted paintings. His method came from the broken color of the
impressionists.
His paintings mostly were about scenery of outdoors with people. One of his paintings, The Models, incorporated one of his most famous paintings, Mean Girls; it was made with his style of dotting his paintings. Dotting was his style, almost all of his paintings are dotted. His other styles that were incorporated in other paintings were real life (humans too), expressions, and realism. Most of his paintings were not bright colors, but still colorful. He wanted to express himself in many ways.
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Works
Some of his early works include: Horse in a Field. c. 1882 Landscape with a Horse. c. 1882. Pierrot with a White Pipe. (Aman-Jean) 1883. Forest of Barbizon. 1883. Watering Can. c. 1883.
External Links
http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2008/02/georges-seurat-part-2.html http://www.wwar.com/artists/http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Seurat.html