Georges Seurat

Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. While less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility; on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.

Sunday in the Park With George is a musical play by Stephen Sondheim, based very loosely on Seurat's life. It uses the Anglicized spelling of his name as George.

Georges Seurat in "The Great White Way"
George the artist was one of the virtual reality characters which Trina Hutchinson conjured up from Sondheim plays. Unlike many of the others, he was neither a warrior, an assassin, or a homicidal maniac, yet he was strategically crucial nonetheless.