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Mr. Grim and God Misunderstanding the science of color and light, Seurat thought that having the viewer mix the color in his mind’s eye, rather than the artist mixing the pigments on canvas as Manet had, would render the color brighter. He was wrong, and got the blues and grays that made him famous. And what, thinks Mr. Grim, has that to do with him? As he looks out upon a world slowly graying, he feels blue, and sees the scene around him as discrete points of light and shade that God with His exquisite palette has made inapprehensible beyond the feeble artistry of each solitary soul, each isolated dot on the conWned and fading canvas. 47 ...

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