Which Pointillist French artist is famous for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte?

• A. Caillebotte
• B. Seurat
• C. Signac
• D. Pissarro

Answer: (B)

Pointillism rests on applying tiny dots of pure color so the eye blends them optically at a distance. Georges Seurat crystallized this approach in the 1880s and created A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte as a supreme example of the method. The painting uses a meticulously organized scene built from countless colored dots, demonstrating how Seurat’s scientific approach to color and light can produce rich harmony and luminosity. That makes him the artist most famous for this work and for founding Pointillism, or Neo-Impressionism.

Other artists mentioned are connected to the broader era: Caillebotte is linked with Realism and a more straightforward Impressionist sensibility, Signac did adopt and promote Pointillism after Seurat, and Pissarro was a leading Impressionist who experimented with division-based techniques but did not create this iconic piece.