Seurat studied traditional ways of painting and then combined modern ideas from the Impressionists and scientific ideas about co
lor, light, and the human eye (optics). Can you think of an example of an artist, artwork, musician or piece of music that combines old and new ideas to make something new?
The theater of cruelty was founded by French playwright, Henry Becque. Antonin Artaud, originally a member of the surrealist movement, is a main contributor to this genre and began to write his own theatrical theories.
