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The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat was painted in 1889 as oil on wood panel and is typical of his French Post-Impressionist style.

The painting of arguably France's most famous landmark is created using tiny and precise dots and paint strokes in order to create a dreamy yet accurate portrayal of the Eiffel Tower.

Georges Seurat utilised precise geometric dimensions in order to then be able to play so artfully with colour and technique. The colours are vivid and bright, with the top of the Eiffel Tower disappearing dreamily into the clouds above.

As an artist, Georges Seurat was famous for his use of colour, and he pioneered a technique called Pointillism, which meant using a collection of small dots in order to create a large and easily recognisable image.

Pointillism was very much influenced by the techniques of Impressionism and helps to trick the viewer's eye into blurring together all of these tiny dots and delicate brushwork into a fuller, more defined image. The technique was at first mocked by critics, but has seen go on to find worldwide respect and acclaim both inside and outside of the artworld itself.

The Eiffel Tower was always a great point of interest for Georges Seurat, himself a Parisian native, and he began his art studies at the famous Ecole Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin. This initial training helped to cement Georges Seurat's interest in contrasts, taking inspiration from the classics and Old Masters in order to shape his own techniques, of which The Eiffel Tower is of course a great example.

He was also greatly inspired by the artist Eugene Delacroix, who was also renowned for his use of colour. As Georges Seurat began to grow as an artist in his own right, he pulled away from Impressionism and focused more of his time using his own Pointillism techniques. During this time, Georges Seurat also went on to set up the artistic group, Le Société des Artistes Independants, in order to further the cultivation of new ideas between fellow artists of a similar mindset, including Henri-Edmond Cross and Paul Signac.

As with The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat, the artist often drew inspiration from the world and sights around him, with other well-known paintings including Bathers at Asnieres and A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte. The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat was painted towards the end of his career and currently hangs in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

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The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat

According to Gustave Coquiot, this work was painted in 1890, the year after the tower was opened for the Paris World's Fair-at which it provided the main attraction. Completed on March 31, 1889, the tower is 984 feet tall and is composed of 12,000 metal parts held in place by 2,500,000 rivets.

Impressed by the intricate calculations involved in this piece of architectural engineering, no doubt also indulging his fondness for the vertical, Seurat shows us the tower from across the Pont d'Iena, soaring into a sky spangled with vibrant dots. This is a tribute to "the great lady" who, at the time, made the public uneasy. Two years before its completion a number of writers protested, among them J.-K. Huysmans, who called it "the spire of a junkyard Notre Dame."

Here Seurat's dots are rounded, like so much blue and orange confetti. They are running in every direction, up, and down, making circular swirls and contrapuntal contrasts. The work is fresh, highly colorful, and firmly set against the Paris sky-Seurat's sky.

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The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower painting by Georges Seurat, a famous French painter, is arguably one of the most outstanding pieces of history that rock the face of the world today. It is a simple hand-painted piece of art-work that features an artistic impression of the world renowned Eiffel Tower.

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This awe-inspiring art print boasts genius artistic techniques. Since its creation during the neo-impressionist era (1889 to be precise), the finely designed piece of artwork has stunned many with its outstanding portrayal of light, tiny brushstrokes.

The groundbreaking paint utilizes elaborate linear structures and scientifically devised geometric order.

Seurat was known for his genius ways of playing around with various color theories. This is evident in this vividly crafted show of artistic might.

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“La Tour Eiffel” by Georges Seurat

“ La Tour Eiffel”

This oil on wood panel painting from 1889 is by the French Post-Impressionist artist, Georges Seurat , and is titled “La Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower)”. Seurat painted this the same year that the Eiffel Tower was erected as the grand entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair.

This painting is actually rather small, at just 6 x 9½ inches. Unlike the impressionism artists of his time, Seurat spent a lot of his time preparing sketches of the Parisian tower before finalizing the painting in his studio.

Seurat was deeply interested in varying theories regarding color and how people view the world around them and applied these ideas in his art. He developed the pointillism painting technique, using tiny points of color to depict a scene allowing the image to blend in the viewers mind, rather than blending the paint on the canvas.  He used contrasts as a way to depict light, which can clearly be seen in this piece here.

“ La Tour Eiffel ” is currently on display at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in California.

For more on Georges Seurat , please visit his short biography here .

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Whether or not the world as Georges Seurat saw it was as out of focus as many of his paintings and drawings would suggest is up for debate.

One thing is for sure, his particularly persnickety style of painting drew a (presumably) spotty dividing line between the older Impressionists and those feisty young upstarts known as the Post-Impressionists. La Tour Eiffel , finished just months ahead of the completion of the tower for its 1889 World’s Fair debut, is a quiet riot of devilishly precise dabs of color.

The Seurat dots of La Tour Eiffel  are a riot of multicolored confetti, each piece notched in just so in order to complement and modify the dots adjacent. This is Seurat’s thing, painting in a way that allows the viewer’s eyes to blend the myriad colored dots into a unified, vividly colorful image. Seurat called this new technique 'chromoluminarism,' though it is better known as Divisionism. It later became known as Pointillism after the tiny strokes of paint that help create the flickering effect of Seurat’s surfaces.

This flickering effect is most pronounced in La Tour Eiffel . The bright sky shimmers with obsessive flecks of white, gold, and blue. And dead center in the middle of this flickering psychedelia appears a promontory of dazzling dots extending to the top of the painting where it simply dematerializes back into the ether.

After studying and contemplating this painting for a couple weeks, the following conclusions have been drawn: Pointillism isn’t especially funny. Heck, it’s not even particularly cute. Pointillism is serious stuff brought to light by a draftsman from a wealthy family who just so happened to have the mad skill of mixing abstract painting with mathematics to come up with a bit of magic that marked the beginning of a new era in the world of art.

I can’t say I fully agree when critics say Seurat’s Eiffel Tower is a great work of art, but I’ll give the guy credit where credit is due.

I’m sure the Eiffel Tower was a big deal around the time that Seurat painted it and in fact, the Eiffel Tower is STILL a big deal. Seurat painted this about two months before engineer Gustave Eiffel had finished it, and obviously WAY before it became the place to take countless photographs of yourself making out in front of it, people holding up peace signs, people holding up the tower by its tip, amongst many other classic yet cheesy poses, only now boosted in creativity with the invention of the selfie stick.

I still try to figure out what the actual function of the tower was supposed to be, but in spite of its ambiguous purpose, it doesn’t upset me so much to look at it. However, critics and intellectuals at that time were just plain pissed with this massive erection (pun intended) on their precious Parisian landscape. Seurat was obviously dotty about it though (I’ll stop now). Enough to sit down by the quai de Passy during different times of the day and paint this baby.

Now, like I said, its no Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, but it’s still a pretty little picture. Even though the tower lives up to its name and does indeed tower over the city, Seurat painted it sweetly on a small canvas. Keeping monumentality out of it, Seurat uses his characteristic technique of painting in dots or points and somehow makes the structure of the tower look a lot lighter, in terms of weight. Again, this doesn’t have to do with the size of the painting but more to do with the way these colored dots look like they just spontaneously ossified into the Eiffel Tower. In that, they look like they could also diffuse any second and the whole picture could go poof! In fact, one of the reasons why Seurat felt an affinity with this modern construction was because he was getting a lot crap at that time for his less than conservative painting technique. Seurat maybe thought, “Us rebels gotta stick together” and went for this.

Ok, so maybe the later critics were onto something when they called it a great piece. Feel free to pick up the $5 fridge magnet version of this if you agree.

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The inventor of the so-called Neo-Impressionist, or pointillist, technique, Seurat used tiny dots of bright, contrasting color to evoke form and light. His technique drew on contemporary theories of visual perception, seeking to give painting a new structure and scientific grounding. Here his subject was the famous tower built by Gustave Eiffel in 1889 for the Universal Exposition in Paris. Seurat portrayed the structure prior to its completion in the summer of 1889. The top, still missing its distinctive crowning platform, seems to dissolve into the sky.

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Art and the Eiffel Tower

From the beginning the Tower was an attraction, but in the 1920s it became a symbol of modernity and the avant-garde. Little by little, its image was associated with Paris, until it even became its worldwide symbol.

Poets, painters, singers, choreographers, film directors, and photographers have all paid homage to it.

Painting and the Eiffel Tower

Ahead of their time, painters made the Tower into a favourite subject, and contemporary artists continue to use it as a model.

Georges Seurat painted it in 1888, before it was even finished. Later on, le Douanier Rousseau, Signac, Bonnard, Utrillo, Gromaire, Vuillard, Dufy, and Chagall all celebrated the Tower. From 1910 Robert Delaunay gave it cubist aspects in a whole series of canvas paintings.

A few painters:

• 1888 - Georges Seurat : « La Tour Eiffel » (Fine Arts, Museum of San Francisco).
• 1889 - Jean Beraud : « Entrée de l’Exposition Universelle » (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
• 1890 - Le Douanier Rousseau : « Moi-même, portrait paysage » (Narodni Galerie, Prague).
• 1899 - Paul Signac : « Seine Grenelle » (Coll. Particulière).
• 1910/1912 - Robert Delaunay : « La Ville de Paris » (MNAM - Centre G. Pompidou, Paris).
• 1911/1912 - Robert Delaunay : « La Tour Rouge » (S.R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
• 1912 - Romaine Brooks : « Jean Cocteau à l'époque de la grande Roue » (MNAM - Centre G. Pompidou, Paris).
• 1913 - Marc Chagall : « Paris par la fenêtre » (S.R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
• 1954 - Nicolas de Staël : « La Tour Eiffel » (Musée d'Art moderne, Troyes).
• 1954/1955 - Marc Chagall : « Le Champ de Mars » (Musée Folkwang, Essen).

Also: Raoul Dufy, Gino Severini, Utrillo, Bernard Buffet, Pol Bury, Roger Lersy…

The Eiffel Tower, a muse for the seventh art

Filmed by Louis Lumière from as early as 1897, and present ever since in a considerable number of productions, the Eiffel Tower was all the more tied to the adventure of cinema as Gustave Eiffel contributed as a silent partner to the company created by Léon Gaumont in 1895. During the 20th Century, the Eiffel Tower became the symbol of Paris and of France throughout the world. From the beginnings of cinema to today, its presence has given us somewhere to set the plot, or allowed us to give our works a timeless or romantic edge.

The Tower also inspired poets, writers, and philosophers

Among them can be named Blaise Cendrars, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Raymond Queneau, Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Le Corbusier, François Coppée, Dino Buzzati, and Guy de Maupassant, not to mention Roland Barthes and his magnificent texts (“The Eiffel Tower” - Ed. Delpire - 1964).

A source of inspiration for songs, another tradition is to put on grandiose events at its feet, like that of the 25th September 1962 when Darryl F. Zanuck organised a mind-blowing event for the launch of the film “Le jour le plus long” (“The Longest Day”). Edith Piaf appeared on the 1st floor and sang in front of 25,000 Parisians. Charles Aznavour and Georges Brassens would follow in 1966 to help the campaign against hunger. Jean-Michel Jarre presented the 50th birthday of UNESCO on the 14th July 1995. The “3 Tenors” concert brought together over 200,000 spectators in July 1998 at the foot of the Tower to listen to José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Johnny Hallyday broke all the records in June 2000 by uniting 600,000 spectators for a concert and pyrotechnic event.

The Tower is also a privileged place for private concerts and other showcases in the reception room on the 1st floor, such as those of Alanis Morissette, Robbie Williams, Texas, Raphaël, Marc Lavoine, Christophe Maé, Justin Bieber, and VV Brown, as well as Véronique Sanson.

A few songs:

Jacques Hélian : « Paris, mais c’est la Tour Eiffel… »

Charles Trénet : « Y a d’la joie, la Tour Eiffel part en balade… »

Jacques Dutronc : « La Tour Eiffel a froid aux pieds… »

Léo Ferré : « Paris portait sa grande croix… » 

Pascal Obispo : « Je suis tombé pour elle… »

• Musical theatre: “Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel” (“The Marriage on the Eiffel Tower”) by Jean Cocteau  
• "Silhouette": a work from Estonian composer Arvo Pärt for string orchestra and percussion. As homage to Gustave Eiffel, it was created in 2010.

The Eiffel Tower and Advertising

For many years, the Eiffel Tower has been used in advertising. On the spire of the Tower itself, between 1925 and 1936, “Citroën” was written in luminous letters.  

Since then, Air France, La Samaritaine, Sony Ericsson, Yves-Saint-Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Philips, Nina Ricci, Alain Afflelou, ADP, American Express, Dior, and Givenchy, are among the best known brands to have used it as a reference image.

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Its most original artistic vocation: pyrotechnics

From as early as 1888, a firework was set off to celebrate the completion of the construction of the monument.

In 1937, for the Exposition des Arts et Techniques, a lighting system was designed by the architect André Granet. Every evening, magnificent fireworks, veritable fountains of fire, were set off from each of the Tower’s three floors.

More recently, the “Countdown to the Year 2000”, a veritable dance of fire and light, broadcast by 250 television channels around the world, fired the planet’s imagination. The event was produced by Groupe F and ECA2.

Lastly, on the 14th July 2009, the traditional pyrotechnics took place on the Tower (and not at the Trocadero, where the firework show to celebrate the Fête Nationale was still put on by the Mayor of Paris) following the theme of its 120th birthday.

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The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat

Title of Artwork: “The Eiffel Tower”

Original title:  “la tour eiffel”.

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Year created 1889, all about the eiffel tower by georges seurat.

In the midst of Paris’s busy streets, in the year 1889, artist Georges Seurat unveiled his magnificent work, “The Eiffel Tower.” This famous piece of art was produced while the renowned tower was being built, and it has a special place in the annals of art. Seurat’s “The Eiffel Tower” is a well-known work of art thanks to his exacting technique, original use of pointillism, and ability to capture the essence of this engineering marvel.

Georges Seurat, a pioneer of the pointillist movement, used countless tiny dots of paint to create his masterpieces. Seurat painstakingly placed each dot to create a seamless image with an eye for colour theory and scientific accuracy. This method is best demonstrated in “The Eiffel Tower,” where Seurat expertly captures the interaction of light and shadow on the tower’s intricate iron structure. The meticulously placed dots give the painting a sense of depth and luminosity, as well as a distinct vibrancy and energy.

Seurat’s portrayal of the Eiffel Tower captures the spirit of the era in addition to his technical mastery. The tower, which was finished in time for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, symbolised the invention and development of the time. In Seurat’s depiction, the tower stands out dramatically against the backdrop of Paris, evoking the grandeur and ambition that went into its design. Seurat conveys the architectural beauty of the building as well as the era’s industrial spirit by using pointillism to capture the iron lattice and intricate details.

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Seurat’s mastery of composition is also evident in “The Eiffel Tower”. The tower occupies the centre of the painting’s canvas, surrounded by the park’s lush vegetation and the animated figures of people taking in the view. The harmony and balance in Seurat’s composition help to focus the viewer’s attention on the main feature while also giving a glimpse of the bustling life that surrounds the monument.

Additionally, “The Eiffel Tower” marks a turning point in art history because Seurat’s avant-garde approach and portrayal of modernity paved the way for later movements in the arts. His meticulous attention to detail and careful dot placement, which are hallmarks of his pointillist style, had a major impact on later artists and helped post-impressionism and neo-impressionism to emerge.

Despite its age, “The Eiffel Tower” still draws viewers in with its stunning appearance and interesting past. The artwork serves as evidence of Seurat’s artistic genius, demonstrating his capacity to capture not only the external features of a scene but also its atmosphere and spirit. By taking viewers back to the 19th century and immersing them in the allure and wonder of the Eiffel Tower’s construction, it acts as a visual time capsule.

Finally, “The Eiffel Tower” by Georges Seurat is a magnificent work of art that perfectly captures the spirit of this engineering marvel. Seurat skillfully captures the play of light and shadow, the majesty of the tower, and the vibrant life around it using his unique pointillist technique. The painting not only captures the mood of the era, but also an important turning point in the development of art. It continues to enthral and inspire viewers today, serving as a monument to Seurat’s artistic brilliance and inviting us to appreciate the beauty of both the iconic building and the artist’s distinctive vision.

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Georges Seurat’s ‘The Eiffel Tower’ is a masterpiece that was crafted in 1889 using the pointillism style. The painting is an oil on wood panel and exemplifies Seurat’s French Post-Impressionist style of art. The artist created a stunning impression of the iconic Eiffel Tower using small, precise dots and paint strokes, which give it an intricate appearance.

Seurat developed the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism which can be seen in all his work. Interestingly, even though the artwork is only 9.5 x 6 inches in size, it is considered one of Seurat’s most outstanding pieces due to its attention to detail.

Seurat was one of the most important Post-Impressionist painters with a large body of work consisting of seven monumental paintings, hundreds of drawings and sketches together with around 40 smaller-scale paintings and sketches. The Eiffel Tower has served as a source of inspiration for many artists over time; however, Seurat’s introduction to contemporary representations remains unmatched.

Other Artwork from Georges Seurat

The Channel at Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe (1890) by Georges Seurat

Port-en-Bessin (1888) by Georges Seurat

Evening, Honfleur (1886) by Georges Seurat

The Seine at Le Grande Jatte (1888) by Georges Seurat

The Channel at Gravelines, in the direction of the Sea (1890) by Georges Seurat

More neo-impressionism artwork.

Haymakers Resting (1891) by Camille Pissarro

Snow, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris (1886) by Paul Signac

Pear Trees in Bloom at Eragny, Morning (1886) by Camille Pissarro

Avond (Evening); Red Tree (1908) by Piet Mondrian

The Pool of London (1906) by Andre Derain

Peasant Girl Drinking her Coffee (1881) by Camille Pissarro

Port of La Rochelle (1921) by Paul Signac

Molen (Mill); Mill in Sunlight (1908) by Piet Mondrian

Apple-Picking (1886) by Camille Pissarro

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La tour Eiffel di Georges Seurat

La tour Eiffel di Georges Seurat ritrae il famoso monumento parigino nella fase di completamento dell’ultimo piano.

Georges Seurat , La tour Eiffel , circa 1889, olio su tavola, 24,1 x 15,2 cm. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, collezione Seligman

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Il piccolo dipinto di Georges Seurat raffigura la sagoma della tour Eiffel che occupa interamente la superficie della tela. Ai piedi della torre si intuisce la presenza di alcuni edifici mentre in primo piano si intravede la balaustra che protegge l’angolo di un balcone. La cima della torre appare come ancora da costruire.

Interpretazioni e simbologia de La tour Eiffel di Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat dipinse questa veduta della tour Eiffel quando l’edificio era ancora incompleto ed era privo dell’ultimo piano. Altri pittori dell’epoca come Delaunay e Chagall proposero le loro interpretazioni della torre. In particolare, Delaunay produsse una serie di dipinti dedicati a questo monumento, durante tutto il corso della sua carriera artistica.

Consulta anche: Torre Eiffel rossa di Robert Delaunay

Altri artisti invece, come Camille Pissarro contrari alla costruzione della torre, non la rappresentarono mai.

L’ingegnere Gustave Eiffel progettò la Tour Eiffel come entrata all’all’Esposizione Universale di Parigi del 1889. Questa edizione era particolarmente importante perché coincideva con il centenario della Rivoluzione francese . Le maestranze costruirono la torre in due anni, dal 1887 al 1889 e le autorità la inaugurarono il 31 marzo del 1889. L’apertura al pubblico si tenne il 6 maggio dello stesso anno. La Tour Eiffel è alta 312,28 metri.

Gustave Eiffel progettò anche, su richiesta dello scultore francese Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi , la struttura interna della Statua della libertà , simbolo di New York.

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La tour Eiffel di Georges Seurat si trova a San Francisco, in California, esposta al Palace of the Legion of Honor. Il dipinto fa parte della collezione Seligman con numero d’archivio 1979.48.

La principessa Marguerite Gaetani, di Roma, Italia, fu la prima proprietaria dell’opera che passò poi a César de Hauke di New York. Quindì fece parte dell’eredità di Germain Seligman. Il dipinto giunse al museo di San Francisco grazie al lascito del William H. Noble Bequest Fund, il 5 aprile del 1979.

L’artista e la società. La storia dell’opera La tour Eiffel di Georges Seurat

Georges-Pierre Seurat dipinse il dipinto che raffigura la tour Eiffel nel 1889.

La cornice dell’opera fu dipinta da Seurat che la ricavò da quella che incornicia il dipinto intitolato Modelle .

Consulta anche l’articolo intitolato: I libri utili alla lettura dell’opera d’arte .

Consulta anche l’articolo intitolato: La scheda per l’analisi dell’opera d’arte .

Lo stile de La tour Eiffel di Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat è considerato dagli storici dell’arte uno dei principali esponenti del Puntinismo francese o Pointillisme. In seguito alle sue ricerche, Seurat elaborò un linguaggio pittorico basato su brevi tratti di colore puro e, in seguito, su punti applicati ordinatamente sulla tela. La ricerca artistica di Georges Seurat rappresenta quindi il passaggio dalla pittura a tratti alla tecnica del puntinismo .

La costruzione di un dipinto puntinista era molto lenta e richiedeva una estrema precisione. Infatti, alla base dell’opera è presente un disegno preciso, anche se sintetico, che guida la disposizione dei punti di colore. La scelta dei colori da accostare è quindi funzionale al colore locale che deve percepire l’osservatore. Da una certa distanza i punti non sono più evidenti e l’osservatore percepisce il colore risultante dalla loro fusione.

Saurat si basò sulle teorie scientifiche del chimico Michel Eugène Chevreul che osservò scientificamente gli effetti dei colori complementari sulla retina umana. Partendo da queste osservazioni, Seurat manifestò la sua intenzione di trovare un modo di dipingere obiettivo. Il suo scopo era infatti quello di sperimentare il fenomeno della percezione visiva soprattutto rispetto alla luce e ai colori risultanti dalla sua riflessione.

Une dimancheaprès-midi à l’île de la Grande-Jatte , opera realizzata tra il 1884 e il 1886, è considerata la prima opera di Seurat nella quale si coglie la piena applicazione della tecnica puntinista.

La tour Eiffel di Seurat è un olio su tavola di 24,1 centimetri di altezza e 15,2 cm di larghezza.

Seurat riuscì ad elaborare il suo linguaggio realizzando bozzetti all’aperto che usava per progettare attentamente le suo opere in studio. Il lavoro di progettazione e realizzazione al chiuso permetteva così a Seurat di eliminare gli elementi più naturalistici e raggiungere la sintesi necessaria.

Il colore e l’illuminazione

Nel dipinto di Georges Seurat esposto a San Francisco la struttura della tour Eiffel è di coror rosso-arancione. La torre si staglia così contro il cielo realizzato con brevi pennellate blu, azzurre, arancioni e gialle. Si colgono poi tratti blu su alcune zone della torre che creano ombre nella parte centrale e soprattutto nell’arco in basso.

Questi tratti freddi e complementari, sulla superficie della tela, si addensano ai lati del dipinto, soprattutto a sinistra dove evocano la chioma di un albero. È presente anche del verde chiaro e scuro in basso, in corrispondenza del suolo. Si osservano poi toni di ocra e giallo chiaro tra gli edifici ai piedi della torre. I diversi elementi del dipinto si evidenziano grazie al forte contrasto tra la coppia dei colori complementari azzurro-blu del cielo e arancione della torre che quindi spicca in modo evidente. L’illuminazione è diffusa e frontale e non crea forti contrasti di luminosità.

La tour Eiffel si trova al centro del dipinto, in terzo piano. In primo piano, invece, si colgono il ponte sulla Senna e gli alberi. Quindi, il secondo piano è rappresentato dalla linea di edifici che si trovano alla base della torre. La profondità si evidenzia, infine, grazie alla successione dei piani ambientali.

La composizione e l’inquadratura

Il dipinto di Georges Seurat è di forma rettangolare, sviluppata in verticale. L’inquadratura pone al centro del dipinto la torre che occupa quasi l’intera altezza dell’opera. La struttura di forma triangolare è fortemente sviluppata verso l’alto mentre in basso corre la fascia orizzontale della veduta cittadina.

Gran parte del dipinto è occupata dal cielo e dalla torre che si staglia contro il blu. Questa disposizione permette così di dare maggior risalto alla struttura dell’edificio, vista frontalmente che assume un aspetto monumentale anche grazie alla base rettangolare costituita dalla veduta cittadina. Infine, in primo piano, prevale la linea obliqua della strada mentre in secondo piano quella orizzontale degli edifici.

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Bibliografia

• Fiorella Minervino e André Chastel, Seurat, Rizzoli, Classici arte, 1 gennaio 2004, 9788817273558
• Hajo Dütching , Seurat , Taschen, Basic Art, 2017, 16 maggio 2017, 9783836562300
• Catherine Grenier , Seurat . Catalogo completo, Cantini, 1990, 5000000004080

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• La tour Eiffel
• Modella di spalle
• Port-en-Bessin, alta marea
• Paesaggio con Il Povero Pescatore di Puvis de Chavannes
• La Senna vista dalla Grande Jatte
• Une baignade à Asnières
• . . . altre opere di Georges Seurat

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The Tableau La Tour Eiffel by Georges Seurat is one of the most famous and emblematic works of the artistic movement of pointillism. This masterpiece was created in 1889 by the French painter, who captured the very essence of the tower, the symbol of Paris and France. In this article, we take a look at the history and characteristics of this major work of fine art.

A painting at the heart of the 1889 Universal Exhibition

Georges Seurat completed his painting The Eiffel Tower in 1889, the year of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. The purpose of this exhibition was to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution and to showcase the industrial and technological advances of the time. The Eiffel Tower, built for the occasion by Gustave Eiffel, was one of the main attractions of the event and symbolised progress and modernity.

Thus, this painting by Seurat represents not only an emblematic monument of the French capital, but also a historical testimony to a key moment in the history of France and modern art.

The characteristics of pointillism in Georges Seurat's La Tour Eiffel

Georges Seurat is considered one of the founders of pointillism, an artistic movement that followed on from Impressionism and is characterised by the use of small touches of paint juxtaposed to create an overall impression. The painting The Eiffel Tower is a perfect example of this innovative technique:

The precision of the dots

In this painting, Georges Seurat used tiny dots of colour to represent the various elements of the scene: the Eiffel Tower itself, the sky, the clouds, the trees and the figures. This precision gives the work great visual richness and allows the viewer to fully appreciate the complexity of the composition.

Chromatic harmony

Pointillism is based on the idea that the human eye can blend colours when they are placed side by side, creating visual harmony. In the painting The Eiffel Tower, Georges Seurat used a wide range of colours, including warm tones (reds, oranges, yellows) and cool tones (blues, greens), to bring his composition to life. As a result, the whole is very harmonious and pleasing to the eye.

Luminosity and depth

Thanks to his mastery of pointillism, Georges Seurat was able to play with light and depth to give his painting a striking three-dimensional aspect. The sunlit areas of the Eiffel Tower contrast with the shaded parts, reinforcing the impression of volume and realism.

Georges Seurat's painting The Eiffel Tower: a must-see work in the museum

Today, Georges Seurat's painting La Tour Eiffel is considered to be one of the must-see masterpieces on a visit to the musée des beaux-arts . This fascinating work not only allows you to discover the artistic world of pointillism, but also to plunge into the history of Paris and France at the end of the 19th century.

• The place of the Eiffel Tower in art: The Parisian monument has inspired many artists since it was built in 1889. Georges Seurat's painting is just one example of the influence the Eiffel Tower has had on French art and culture.
• The comparative study of other paintings: To gain a better understanding of Seurat's work and the pointillism movement, it may be interesting to compare this painting with other works in the same genre by contemporary painters such as Paul Signac or Vincent van Gogh.
• The historical context: Finally, to understand the full significance of this painting, it is essential to look back at the historical context of the time, marked by the Industrial Revolution, the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and the social and cultural upheavals that ensued.

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the pointillism style.

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