A film about the life and work of Georges Seurat (1859-1891) Written and narrated by David Thompson with Henry Moore and Bridget Riley
' Seurat to me has always been one of the great draughtsmen of the world - someone to whom drawing, light and three-dimensional form, and trying to express it on a flat surface-this is what he struggled to do from a student and came through to do in the end marvellously.' (HENRY MOORE )
This week a major exhibition of Post-Impressionist painting opens at the Royal Academy. This film explores the development of one of the most influential artists of the generation which followed the Impressionists. Seurat's revolutionary approach to painting, the scientific technique of applying paint in small dots which was his hallmark, the beauty of his drawings and his profound approach to his subject matter, have always made him a force to be reckoned with not only by his contemporaries, but by modern artists like Henry Moore and Bridget Riley. with the CIRQUEGRUSS A L'ANCIENNE,Paris
Photography
JOHN TURNER and RICHARD ADAMS Film recordists
COLIN MARCH and RON BROWN Film editor ROY FRY Producer ANN TURNER