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Georges Seurat, a French art master who spanned centuries, dazzled in the starry sky of Neo-Impressionism with his extraordinary brushstrokes. Although his life was as short as a meteor across the sky from 1859 to 1891, he left behind an eternal artistic legacy.
In the early days of Seurat's artistic journey, sketching was the brush of his soul, laying the foundation for his great creations. In those years, he was like a devout pilgrim, shuttling between the solemnity of ancient sculptures and the vividness of real models, using lines to sketch out pictures of his soul. At the same time, he also copied the elegance of the master Ingres and the depth of Poussin with awe. However, these precise classical techniques were only the breeding ground for his artistic awakening, foreshadowing the brewing of a change.

Seurat's sketches are not like earthly things. They abandon the obsession with trivial details and pursue a symphony of light and shadow that transcends form. In his paintings, the facial features of the characters are no longer finely carved gems, but dancers on the stage of light and shadow, dancing lightly on the picture with the grand light and shadow structure as their clothes. The eyelids have never flickered, and the pupils have not reflected light, because they have been integrated into the intertwined light and shadow, forming a universe in themselves, telling the philosophical poem that "light is existence, not limited by outlines."

He prefers rough paper, which is the battlefield where he performs magic. The heavy dark tones are like the falling night, laying out a deep background for the picture; the "excessive" gray tones are like the haziness before the dawn, neither black nor white, but a transition and also a reflection; and the bright tones interspersed in between are like stars adorning the night sky, lighting up hope and dreams. The picture constructed by Seurat is not only a visual feast, but also a monologue of the soul. What he pays attention to is the rhythm and harmony of the picture structure, rather than the detailed depiction of a single object.

Even when depicting the warmth of daytime, Seurat prefers to place characters under heavy shadows, as if to tell the story of the difficulty and loneliness of life. Those shadows are not only a game of light and shadow, but also an expression of his deep insight into the complexity of human nature and his compassion. In Seurat's world, every sketch is an unfinished poem, waiting for the interpretation of those who are interested, to feel the beauty of sadness and loneliness that transcends time and space.

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