Neo-Impressionism

Georges Seurat developed a very distinct style in painting history called Neo-Impressionism. This method played with light only using tiny brush strokes. These tiny brush strokes progressed to become only dots called pointillism. Contrasting colors was also a characteristic of this style.

Through this style his work was always very large and would cover entire walls. The purpose was so the color marks were so small that they could not be separated from each other when looking at the whole piece.

The chemist, Michel-Eugene Chevreul, told him of his theories of chromatic light circles which led to his experimentation with the primary colors to develop this style.