Brief Biography-Georges-Pierre Seurat is most associated with the advent of Pointillism. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts for one year under Henri Lehmann before entering military service in 1879. After returning to Paris in 1880, Seurat set up a studio and indulged in drawing for the next two years. Then, on the rejection of his first significant work by the Salon, the Bathers at Asnières, he affiliated himself with the Groupe des Artistes Indépendants who exhibited the painting.  
When Seurat met Paul Signac and other impressionist painters, they formed a new group, the Société des Artistes Indépendants. The group concentrated on a technique referred to as Divisionism or Chromoluminarism, among other styles. It was a method of dividing colour into minute separate sections. Pointillism focused mainly on the use of dots. Critics named the artists Neo-Impressionists after Seurat exhibited A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in 1886, which caused a sensation. The painting had taken him two years to complete. It is one of his most acclaimed works today.
While Seurat became a successful artist, he lived a quiet, modest life. He stayed with a model Madeleine Knobloch who had a son in 1890. Then, in 1891, he died suddenly of meningitis.