Born in Paris in 1859, painter Georges Seurat became famous for his new styles and techniques of painting. As a post-Impressionist, he was more concerned with the use of color (rather than the naturalistic representations of light prized by Impressionists like Monet). Instead, Seurat created new techniques of mixing colors: pointillism (using small dots of color to create an image) and chromoluminarism (arranging contrasting colors in small dots to optically mix them). His most famous work using this technique is his 1884 painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It
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