"In the 1880s Seurat was the leader of the avant-garde group of painters who used pointillist dots of pure colour to create their pictures. The eye blends Seurat's colours harmoniously, giving his paintings a luminosity and vigour."
"Vincent, accompanied by his brother Theo, later called on Seurat on 19 February 1888, the day he left for Provence. Although he would have been doing the last-minute preparation for a trip to Arles that would last well over a year, he still found the time - evidence of the importance he attached to seeing Seurat's work."
"The Van Gogh brothers would have been overwhelmed to enter Seurat's studio. There they saw two of the French artist's greatest and largest paintings and must also have seen some of the nine 1885-86 Normandy seascapes. Vincent later wrote to Theo that he was 'so struck by Seurat's canvases'."
Georges Seurat led the avant-garde Neo-Impressionist movement in 1880s Paris, pioneering pointillist techniques where dots of pure color blend harmoniously in the viewer's eye to create luminous paintings. Seurat and Van Gogh first met in November 1887 at an exhibition on Boulevard de Clichy alongside Toulouse-Lautrec and Bernard. Van Gogh visited Seurat's studio on February 19, 1888, just hours before leaving for Arles, viewing major works including two of Seurat's largest paintings and Normandy seascapes. Van Gogh was profoundly impressed by Seurat's canvases. Theo subsequently purchased a Seurat drawing, and Vincent expressed interest in exchanging paintings or self-portraits with Seurat, though this never materialized. Van Gogh continued admiring Seurat's pointillist system from Arles.
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