Georges Seurat - The Stone Breakers, Le Raincy 1882
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The Stone Breakers, Le Raincy 1882
37x45cm oil/canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
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From Norton Simon Museum:
Seurat is today best remembered as the inventor of Neo-Impressionism, a famous technique that used tiny dabs of contrasting color to create continuous images. This study—one of eight he devoted to the punishing labor of stone breakers—precedes Seurat’s revolutionary new manner by several years but already indicates his departure from the high Impressionist style. Picked out with short strokes of contrasting color, a pile of stones at the center of the composition appears convincingly pulverized, broken down from masses into particles, from form into color.