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George Serra: The Google Doodle is dedicated to the pioneer painter

THE Georges Serra is the honored person of today Google Doodle. On the occasion of the completion of 162 years from his birth, the achievements of the French painter are highlighted, who captured the natural properties of light in scenes of his modern life. Paris. He used special techniques that characterized his works and his style known as Pointing and Divisionism.. His innovative methods Greenhouse, created the school of Neo-Impressionism, a pioneering movement of the 19th century that forever changed the course of contemporary art.

THE Georges Zera was born into a well – to – do family in Paris of France, like today in 1859. He began his formal art education as a teenager and continued his education at the famous Foundation of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts in 1878. O Greenhouse was very fascinated by the science behind it Art during his studies, but was soon disappointed by the limits of the academic tradition. He then delved into the scientific study of color theory and optical physics to devise and develop an original style that he christened “color-lighting”, later known as Pointing the Divisionism.

After many drafts in small paintings, a meeting with a 100-year-old chemist and years of experimentation, the Greenhouse completed the painting that is widely considered his masterpiece at just 26, “A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte – 1884”. The painting is now in the collection Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection in the The Art Institute of Chicago.

His technique Pointing is immortalized in Google Doodle. When viewed from a suitable distance, the mural-sized painting tricks the observer into perceiving more than 200,000 tiny touches and patches of the opposite color on its canvas as a glittering, cohesive scene of an island in Seine outside the Paris.

His obsession Greenhouse with color theory led some art historians to speculate that his techniques were influenced by the atmospheric effects of volcanic eruptions that produced some of the most colorful sunsets recorded during the 1800s. for discussion, Serra had an impact on visual culture. His monumental work has inspired countless artists from different disciplines, such as his musical Broadway, while even appearing in a successful film.

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