Seurat: The Circus
| The Circus (1887; Louvre, Paris)
by Georges Seurat demonstrates the artist's use of pointillism, a technique
employing "points" of color to achieve luminosity. Seurat's precision of
color and form contrast with the comparative formlessness of impressionism.
(Giraudon/Art Resource, NY)
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Source:
"Seurat: The Circus," Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier,
Inc., 2001. <http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/gme_bp?assetid=aa298&assettype=p
(May 20, 2001).