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Seurat developed Pointillism, where, rejecting broad brushstrokes of mixed color, he instead applied tiny "points" of pure color to his canvas, relying upon the observer's eye to mix the colors. The result was extraordinary, but the method, painstaking. This scene, with over forty figures and their surroundings, took the artist almost two years to complete, during which he refused to lunch with close friends lest they distract him from his work. Today it remains his best-known masterpiece and a monument to dedication. |
