Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) was a French painter who developed a body of work built on his systematic application of color theory — particularly the writings of Michel Eugène Chevreul and Ogden Rood on simultaneous contrast and optical mixing. He was intensely intellectual and secretive about his methods, believing he had discovered a scientific grammar for painting that could produce predictable emotional responses through the precise manipulation of color and line direction.

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