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Locating the anomalous: Gesualdo, Blake, and Seurat. (analysis of the works of Carlo Gesualdo, William Blake and Georges Seurat)
From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 19980301
Author:Whitted, Brent E.
The artists Carlo Gesualdo, William Blake and Georges Seurat similarly depicted a unique sense of independence from their socio-artistic context by portraying new artistic classifications and interpretative strategies. Gesualdo, the Italian 'Mannerist' madrigalist, gained popularity during the late 1500s for writing sacred and secular choral pieces of a masochistic bent. Likewise, the French 'Post-Impressionist' painter Georges Seurat was widely recognized for his transformation of the creative process into an austere system of color representation which depicted techniques of industrial mass ...
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