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Georges-Pierre Seurat did not have a long life, but he strikingly changed and influenced the art world with his contributions. Enjoy this quiz on Seurat and some of his art!
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The artist Georges Seurat. Seurat is the fifth of nineteen focus artists featured in the 2001-2002 US Academic Decathlon curriculum and his featured work is 'A Sunday On La Grande Jatte'.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat Trivia Questions
1. Where was Seurat born?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Paris

Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in paris. His father, Antoine-Chrysostome Seurat, was a property owner and spent most of his time away from home at his garden in La Raincy, where he and his gardener would hold their own Mass.

2. In 1875, Seurat began taking municipal drawing classes. Who was his teacher?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Justin Lequien

Like most artists, Seurat discovered that he could draw at a young age. Lequien had his students draw pictures of plaster casts of classical sculptures.

3. Another of the prime influences on Seurat was a publication by David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville, a Dutch artist. This work was published as three books between 1827 and 1832, but never completed. What treatise was produced?

From Quiz It's Hot Up Here

Answer: Essay on the Unmistakable Signs of Art

This work profoundly changed Seurat's outlook on art. It proposed a more scientific approach to the creation of art. Along with other subjects, it deals with human response to objects such as lines, circles, and other shapes, as well as how the human eye interprets and views the colors it sees.

4. In 1878, Seurat was admitted into university. What was the name of the school?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Ecole des Beaux-Arts

He studied under the ultra-academic painter Henri Lehmann, who was a pupil of Ingres.

5. Who did Seurat study under at this school?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Henri Lehmann

Lehmann gave Seurat as formal an art education as any man could have.

6. In 1884 the Paris Salon rejected the first of Seurat's large canvases, "Bathers at Asnières". In reaction, which group did Seurat and other independent artists form to exhibit their art?

From Quiz It's Hot Up Here

Answer: Society of Independent Artists

This picture was created on a 10 foot wide canvas. It was exhibited by this group in 1884, but the picture was exhibited in a beer hall. It got very mixed reviews. Seurat had been working on the painting for months, creating many small studies of the various objects and people portrayed in the final picture.

7. What was Seurat's first major work to show the effects of his studies in optical theory?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Bathing at Asnieres

The Salon rejected it in 1884, leaving Seurat in search of a place to display his art.

8. With the creation of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" Seurat started a new art movement which he called Chromoluminarism. What term did French art critic Félix Fénéon coin which is used today to describe this art movement?

From Quiz It's Hot Up Here

Answer: Neo-Impressionism

The intent was to create art by mixing colors optically, i.e., when the viewer looked at the painting, rather than mixing the paints before applying to the canvas. In this manner the colors remained "pure". Seurat worked on this painting for two years before exhibiting it in 1886.

9. Where did Seurat go for his year of mandatory military service?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Brest

There he drew scenes of oceans, beaches, and boats; these themes would resurface in his mature art.

10. In 1888 Seurat completed a painting of three models posing in front of one of his previous paintings. Which painting do they pose in front of?

From Quiz It's Hot Up Here

Answer: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

There is some speculation as to whether this is indeed three models, or one model in three separate positions, one with her back to the artist, one frontal, and one in profile. The meaning of the juxtaposition of the nude models to the fully clad folk portrayed in the picture has also been speculated on in many of the articles.

11. What did Seurat help to found?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Association des Artistes Independants

He helped to found this after the Salon rejected 'Bathing at Asnieres'.

12. Seurat was a very private person, and for a time he lived secretly with a young model, Madeleine Knobloch, who gave birth to his son in 1890. In which portrait did he preserve her likeness?

From Quiz It's Hot Up Here

Answer: Young Woman Powdering Herself

Several accounts state that he did not introduce Madeleine to his family until immediately before his death. George's death has been reported to be caused by many different illnesses, a testimony to the state of the medical practice at that time. His son, Pierre-George Seurat died days after his father's death of what was believed to be the same cause.

13. He aided Seurat in refining some of his experimentation. Who was Seurat's colleague and considered to be his closest follower?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Signac

Signac was very interested in Seurat's techniques.

14. The winter of 1884 saw Seurat spending all of his time working on one large canvas. Which work was this?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

15. What was the artistic technique devised by Seurat?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: pointillism & divisionism & divisionalism & pointillist & pointilism

It was first called Divisionism but is now called Pointillism. Technically, Divisionism is the theory and Pointillism is the technique, but people generally refer to Seurat's art as a whole as Pointillist.

16. Which work did Seurat NOT do?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: La Boulangerie

La Parade is also known as The Side Show. The Circus was Seurat's great unfinished work (unfinished because he died while creating it).

17. Which was 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' exhibited in?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: the eighth and final Impessionists exhibition

18. Who was Seurat's mistress?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: Madeleine Knoblock

Jane Avril was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge who knew Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.

19. What did Seurat die of?

From Quiz Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer: throat infection

His son died of the same infection a few days later.

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