Georges Seurat (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Georges SeuratAN unbiased mind perceives with stupefaction that even in his first produc tions, even in his youth, he was great. At times he may have been more deli cate, at times more Singular, at times he may have been more of a painter, but he was always great. These words, written by Baudelaire about Eugene Dela croix, are surely relevant to Georges Seurat, who was at once the disciple of the painter of the Massacres of Scio and of Delacr'oix's rival, Ingres. Surely Georges Seurat was great, for he was able to realize unhesitatingly whatever his eye and his intelligence dictated to his brush, the very least of his Sketches bears the Stamp of an incomparable artistic personality, the unsuspected aspect of beings and of things which he perceived and projected on his canvases is today part of our aesthetic patrimony.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.