Although Georges Seurat made many portraits of his mother, none of them has the fascinating sense of calm and simplicity that can be seen in this drawing. Here he filled almost the entire sheet with Madame Seurat's face. Her lowered eyes create an aura of modesty and suggest that she is involved in a quiet activity such as reading or embroidery. She is simple, but not severe, with withdrawn buns and somewhat thick features - a humble motherly person, apparently unaware that she is being observed. The drawing has an almost mystical aura and combines extreme intimacy and closeness with the equally extreme inwardness of the nanny's facial expression. Her enigmatic physical presence and psychological silence is all the more evaporated and haunted by the drawing technique that Seurat called 'irradiation', which avoided clear lines and represented the subtleties of light and shadow by tones of black chalk.
Georges-Pierre Seurat (Paris, 2 December 1859 - 9 March 1891) was a French painter and draughtsman. The work of Georges Seurat belongs to Pointillism, a style of painting within Impressionism. Together with Paul Signac, he was the founder of 19th century neo-impressionism.
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