Todays Google animated Doodle celebrates French painter Georges Seurat, who captured the natural qualities of light in scenes of contemporary Parisian life with his signature painting techniques known as Pointillism and Divisionism.
Seurat’s innovative methods gave rise to the school of Neo-Impressionism, an avant-garde 19th century movement that forever changed the course of modern art.
Georges-Pierre Seurat (born December 2, 1859, Paris, France—died March 29, 1891, Paris) was a French post-Impressionist artist.
He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism.
While less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation.