s selected -- Georges-Pierre Seurat and Marcel Duchamp -- were not only "modernist" (in the Bocola sense) but were also futurists. Let us consider a quick background of the two artists.
Seurat was born in Paris in 1859 and when he was 19 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879. Art, as was the language, was controlled by a committee of elders who ran an Academie and who determined what was good art and what was bad art (Shiff 92). After being rejected too many times, he got together with other artists and founded the Societe des Artistes Independents. Seurat thought there was much wrong with the most popular school of Impressionism, and in his search, came up with a style of painting which was basically dots of color. This was called "Pointillism," a concept and style that was a precursor to the concept of pixillation which is at the basis of all digital reproduction (Fleming 142)
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