A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat: Great Art Explained

Click on to try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days. The first 200 people will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! Or if you prefer a one-off donation - Merchandise here - Georges Seurat once revealed that he had been ‘interested in finding an optical formula’ for painting since he was just 17 years old. Seurat spent most of his adult life thinking about colour, studying theories, and working out systematically how one colour, placed in a series of dots, next to those of another, creates a whole different colour when it hits the retina of the human eye. How one colour can make another appear luminous bright, and vibrant. Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified