Georges Seurat The Art Of Vision Michelle Foa by Michelle Foa 9781118856796, 1118856791, B010M92FU6 instant download after payment.

Georges Seurat painted The Hospice and Lighthouse of Honfleur in the summer of 1886, one of seven paintings in a series that he produced of Honfleur’s port and surrounding coastline (see fig. 8). The lighthouse in the middle ground is matched by one in the far background, visible, but just barely so, from where Seurat was standing. To the right of the lighthouse in the background is a jetty that stretches out into the water. These same lighthouses and jetties appear repeatedly in Seurat’s paintings of Honfleur, as the artist wandered from place to place around the port and produced a series of pictures portraying overlapping parts of the site. Between 1886 and 1890 (the last summer of his life) Seurat spent part of every summer but one in a different port town along France’s northern coast, each stay resulting in a series that consisted of somewhere between two and seven pictures. A few of the particularities vary from port to port and from series to series, but the underlying logic of these pictorial groupings is the same; each picture in a given series depicts a part of the larger site that is represented in or referred to by at least one other painting in that series. These are groups of images that track Seurat’s movements in space as he shifts from one vantage point to another to study the objects and spaces around him from a multiplicity of viewpoints, with each view, and each painting, supplementing the others. Seurat’s seascapes, then, center on extended visual and bodily engagement with one’s surroundings, and thus fit in well with his long-standing reputation as an artist interested in visual experience and its pictorial representation.