Description of the painting by Georges Seurat “Horse”
He preferred to write on wooden planks rather than on canvas. Later, deciding to create a major work, he pursued the goal to draw attention to himself. And in 1883, in the Salon, he exhibited his paintings, as well as at the First Exhibition of Independent Artists. On one of his large paintings, which Seru wrote a whole year, but the jury responded negatively. Later he organized his exhibition, where he presented several works, including the first one. But still, opinions were divided, with a predominance of a high percentage of negative attitudes.
For example, one of the members of the jury called the paintings incomprehensible, absolutely unfortunate and terrible, which are meaningless and contain imagination. However, Seurat was happy and this, but stopped working with the Salon. Acquainted there with the famous Paul Signac, he teamed up with him, creating a new technique of drawing, which they called pointillism.
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Seurat had no accidents, everything carried its meaning. In the picture, a lonely animal depicts the author’s inner essence, his feelings and loneliness, despite the fact that the artist had a family and a small child. But the internal complexes that originated in it were not groundless. He was oppressed by the trivial attitude to his paintings, the lack of understanding by experts in the field of painting of the writing technique he had introduced. Unfortunately, his life was short. Death came to him in the heyday of youth, in 32 years.
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