The reserved, shy, yet strangely proud-seeming young painter Georges Seurat lived a secluded life in a small studio on the Boulevard de Clichy in Paris In comparison with other 19th-century artists such as Vincent van Gogh or Paul Gauguin, he led what appeared on the outside to be a rather uneventful life His passions could only be aroused on questions овбыж of art Then he would spend hours discussing his views on painting and expounding the most recent theories of colour and art, without which, he declared, a new style of painting could no longer get by His insistence presently made him one of the foremost figures of the new Parisian art scene which, during the 1880s, departed ever further from the old ideals of Impressionism - intuition and temperament - and sought new values in art The Impressionist masters such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas had in the meantime become part of the establishment Their style was even imitated, in a moderated form, in Salon circles The spontaneous, virtuoso and subjective approach of the Impressionists was no longer enough for many young painters; they sought scientific principles on which to base their art, and were therefore fascinated by Seurat's unconditional dedication to painting and his belief in verifiable rules which would give modern painting a new persuasive power Иллюстрации Автор Хайо Дюхтинг Hajo Duchting.  Interac2005 г Мягкая обложка, 96 стр ISBN 3-8228-5863-3 Тираж: 3000 экз.