Obituary

Seurat's pointillist crowd became the internet's favorite way to say something looks fine from a distance and falls apart up close — a metaphor for most things. It died when everyone learned the word 'pointillism' and immediately forgot it.

Portrait: Georges Seurat · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2014

Died

2019

Cause of death

Pointed itself to death

Last sighting

An art-history lecture, 2019

Resting place

Section X, Row 3

Category

art