A brief look at Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Grang Jatte" and "Young Woman Powdering Herself."

Much like the tiny dots of color that make up one of Georges Seurat's stunning successes, there are too, the influences of a variety of past masters inspiring these works that when viewed from further back, create a complete picture. Issues of impending modernity, industrialization and the segmentation of social class between worker and upper class inundated Seurat's Parisian world of the late nineteenth century. Freed from the financial constraints of a working class artist, …

…push towards the future of are in itself. By becoming a mosaic mixture of "relentlessly scientistic and ingratiatingly popular" Seurat's paintings attempted to connect his ideals with his craft. (Eisenman 286) In Seurat's mastery of the new color theories of the time, use of classical proportions of figure and space and engaging social commentary, he succeeded in not only creating the whole new movement of neo-impressionism, he also became an inspiration for future movements to come.