Georges Seurat was a French painter who developed the style of pointillism in the late 19th century. Pointillism involves applying small dots or points of pure color close together so that from a distance they blend together in the eye of the viewer to form a unified image. Seurat's most famous painting using this technique was Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte from 1886, which took him two years to complete and contains over 3 million dots of paint. Although he died young at age 32, Seurat had a significant influence on later artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Matisse.