Models, Georges Seurat (ca. 1886-1888) by Atelier Liesjes

About "Models, Georges Seurat (ca. 1886-1888)"

by Atelier Liesjes

About the artwork

Models, also known as The Three Models and Les Poseuses, is a work by Georges Seurat, painted between 1886 and 1888.

The piece, the third of Seurat's six major works, is a response to critics who considered the painter's technique inferior because it was cold and unable to represent life. In response, the artist offered an image of the same model in three different poses, nude.

Models are considered distinctive because of the pointillist technique and the political implications of depicting the nude female body.

The woman, the model stands naked as a nude model in the nude portrait with another painting by the artist in the background. Because the same girl is depicted three times as a nude model, the back, legs, abdomen, torso, breasts and buttocks are exposed in the portrait.

All in all a sexy and sensual erotic picture with romance.

Georges-Pierre Seurat is best known for his large-scale scenes of modern life, but he was also an accomplished landscape painter with a special talent for marines. This work was painted during the last summer of Seurat's short life in the seaport of Gravelines on the French Flemish Channel coast, near the Belgian border.
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 painting style within impressionism. Together with Paul Signac he was the founder of the 19th-century neo-impressionism.