This comprehensive exhibit of drawings by Georges Seurat (1859–91) reveals an artist redefining painting amid the hurly-burly of early modernism. In the late 1870s—an age when scientists had recently ...

“Georges Seurat: The Drawings,” which opens Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, is MoMA doing what it does best. The breathtaking show of more than 135 works — primarily conté drawings, along with ...

The late great Georges Seurat is known in the U.S. very largely as the painter of one picture—his big Sunday afternoon scene showing some 40 figures taking their ease on the banks of the Seine, La ...

Eminent art historian Robert L. Herbert (Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society) is emeritus professor at Mount Holyoke College after a long career at Yale. His commonsense approach to 19th ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- You can see a refreshed version of an iconic painting on Thursday at the Art Institute. "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat is being re ...

For his masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the French painter created a new technique that used dots of colors to form an image when viewed from a distance. Steven Musil ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- It's one of the most recognizable paintings of all time – Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." Seurat painted the masterwork from 1884 to 1886, and ...

To artists inspired by what they see in nature, volcanic sunsets are the holy grail of light and color. They transform placid sunsets and post-twilight glows into vibrant bloodbaths of spectral ...