Georges Seurat began the distinctive artistic movement that was said to combine science and art. He actualized many of the notions of the science of color first begun by scientists such as Michel Eugéne Chevreul, who found that overlapping primary colors would form a third color from a distance.
Such a theory was further alluded to and directed towards potential artists by Charles Blanc, who was directly inspired by Chevreul's initial findings.
Seurat himself adopted the findings and formed the style of pointillism, which portrayed scenes through the use of points of colors in close proximity to each other in order to depict a scene.
Georges Seurat is credited as being a painter who entered the art world at a very important time in the Impressionist movement. When Seurat began his pointillist technique Impressionism had lost a great deal of its initial momentum. It was in dire need of a new style of painting and Seurat's scientific take on art fit this demand perfectly. Europe was in a degree of industrial and scientific change and through his art Seurat reflected this social and economic shift.