Pink Landscape
1882 - 1883
Georges SEURAT
(1859 - 1891)
Oil on wood

Seurat's early work shows similarities to that of his eminent predecessor Jean-Francois Millet and the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, Like them, he was interested in depicting peasant scenes. At first glance, the landscape appears blur but a lively scene emerges, revealing an unpaved road bathed in sunlight, running between two clumps of trees. The horizontal format is typical of these studies, which Seurat executed with the same technique throughout his career using relatively wide brushstrokes, applied in all directions. The fragmentation of the colour surface through the juxtaposition of broad touches of simlar tones is also typical of Seurat's approach. The palette here is still that of the Impressionists

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