The Politics of Pointillism

French painter Georges-Pierre Seurat used Pointillism and Divisionism to point out the divisions in society and create the first Modernist Masterpieces

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist painter, who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was taught by a disciple of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who in turn had been taught by Eugène Delacroix. After taking a year out from his studies for military service, Seurat exhibited his drawing Aman-Jean at the…