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9/17/08
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Book: Mickey and Me
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Game: Baseball
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THE BATHERS Artist’s Name: Georges Seurat Date and Place of Birth: He was born in Paris in 1859. Artistic Influences: He was influenced by the Impressionists. Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and perhaps dozens of other artists of this century were influenced by Seurat. Artistic Style: He set about trying to duplicate the avant-garde colour of the Impressionists. He pushed Impressionist colour theory into the realm of scientific experimentation, breaking new ground with his tiny points of colour with every stroke. Though stiff, formal, and stylised, the work literally shimmered with light as the tiny dots of colour did things to the viewer's eyes no painting had ever done before. His painting moved closer to Cubism and abstraction. What I think of his work: I really love the way he is able to make the picture look so real just using dots such as shadows and light reflecting of the water. It is amazing that he could do so much just using dots.
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