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1. The Sondheim production, "Sunday in the Park with George", is a musical inspired by George Seurat and the creation of one of his paintings. In the song "It's Hot Up Here" the picture comes alive and the people depicted are singing about the heat and being stuck in the picture forever. Which of his pictures comes alive in the second act?
2. Seurat received a traditional training as an artist at the École des Beaux-Arts. But the Impressionists were having a tremendous effect on the art world. In addition, scientists were writing about color and the human perceptions of colors. Michel Eugène Chevreul, a French chemist, produced what revolutionary artists' color tool?
3. Another of the prime influences on Seurat was a publication by David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville, a Dutch artist. This work was published as three books between 1827 and 1832, but never completed. What treatise was produced?
4. To be selected for the Paris Salon exhibitions was the career goal of many an aspiring artist. The Salon selected the pictures for exhibition by jury. In 1883 the only Seurat painting displayed at the Paris Salon was exhibited. Which of these paintings it?
5. In 1884 the Paris Salon rejected the first of Seurat's large canvases, "Bathers at Asnières". In reaction, which group did Seurat and other independent artists form to exhibit their art?
6. With the creation of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" Seurat started a new art movement which he called Chromoluminarism. What term did French art critic Félix Fénéon coin which is used today to describe this art movement?
7. The style of the new art movement was to create art in which colors are not mixed on the palette, but remain distinct and separate on the canvas. The viewer's eye will actually combine the colors optically. Which of these techniques did Seurat employ by painting dots of color on the canvas?
8. In 1888 Seurat completed a painting of three models posing in front of one of his previous paintings. Which painting do they pose in front of?
9. Seurat was a very private person, and for a time he lived secretly with a young model, Madeleine Knobloch, who gave birth to his son in 1890. In which portrait did he preserve her likeness?
10. Seurat's last painting, though not completed, was exhibited from March 20 to April 27, 1891. It was never finished due to his death on March 29, 1891. The subject of the painting was popular with Impressionists. Which of these paintings was he working on when he died?
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