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The goal of neoimpressionism was to develop and systematize a color theory that had been practiced haphazardly and without scientific precision by the impressionists.
Using the techniques of pointillism, Seurat applied paint to his canvases in very small dots of pure undiluted pigment; the juxtaposition of dots of strong contrasting colors created a particularly vibrant effect in the eye of the viewer.
In its stylization of form, neoimpressionism became an important precursor of modern art; a large Seurat retrospective in 1905 was one of the immediate influences on the creation of cubism.
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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Recent Acquisitions
He was Seurat's closest associate during the formative years of the innovative technique of painting small dotlike strokes of pigment.
For the remainder of his long, illustrious career Signac remained Neoimpressionism's most faithful and passionate advocate, in both his art and writings.
His professed aim—"to give color the greatest possible brilliance"—was achieved by deftly orchestrated compositions that place a premium on the juxtaposition of pure, unmixed colors, first in small dabs or "dots" and later in squares.
www.metmuseum.org /Works_Of_Art/recent_acquisitions/1998/co_rec_eur_1998_412_3.asp   (226 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com Story : Seurat and Neoimpressionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Le Chahut depicts Seurat’s vision of Utopia which consists of the nightlife of Paris and shows the pleasure of modern individuality and the influence of the moment; focusing on popular culture using nightlife and leisure for his subject matter.
“Neoimpressionism represented together the alienation of modern life and the utopian dream of a life of leisure and unending pleasure” (Eisenman, 274).
Eisenman, Stephen F. “Nineteenth Century Art: a critical history Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimpressionism.” Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History.
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 Modern Art
The furious splashes of color in his paintings often represent emotions such as confusions and chaos.
Matisse was an artist using impressionism, neoimpressionism, fauvism, pointillism, and paper cutout.
He is most famous for being the father of fauvism, "The King of the Fauves." les fauves translates from the French as "wild beasts." Fauvism was a style of painting in France from 1898-1908.
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 Sergey Egorov - Free Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com
Sergey Egorov's works of art are distinguished by transparency, lightness and festivity.
The artist's genre can be classified as neoimpressionism.
Sergey's landscapes are pierced by air and light.
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 Encyclopedia
For a time in the 1880s Pissarro, discouraged with his work, experimented with pointillism (see
NEOIMPRESSIONISM,); as it proved unpopular with collectors and dealers, Pissarro returned to a freer impressionist style.
A painter of sunshine and the scintillating play of light, Pissarro produced many quiet rural landscapes and river scenes; he also painted street scenes in Paris, Le Havre, and London.
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 neoimpressionism - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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A Fruitful Friendship; Cezanne and Pissarro get a new look in New York.("Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
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 AllRefer.com - neoimpressionism (European Art, 1600 To The Present) - Encyclopedia
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 postimpressionism
The first major exhibitions of their works were held in London in 1910–11 and in 1912.
The term embraces a far wider school of thought than the neoimpressionism of
In this more systematic and precise approach, also called divisionism or pointillism, small dabs of pure color on the canvas were meant to be mixed by the eye of the viewer to produce intense color effects.
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 Camille Pissarro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), he lived in England and made a study of English art, particularly the landscapes of Joseph Mallord William Turner.
For a time in the 1880s Pissarro, discouraged with his work, experimented with pointillism (see Neoimpressionism); the new style, however, proved unpopular with collectors and dealers, and he returned to what he found to be a freer impressionist style.
In 1869 Pissarro moved from Pontoise to Louveciennes, on the outskirts of Paris.
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Impression/Pissarro.html   (347 words)

  
 Collection Highlights / The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Born in Maine, the painter led a peripatetic but productive life, executing landscapes, still lifes, and abstractions in many different styles in North America and Europe.
Hartley was influenced by neoimpressionism, expressionism, and cubism, and specifically by Kandinsky, Matisse, Picasso, and Cézanne.
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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 Art Periods in France: NEOIMPRESSIONISM
Sometimes called pointillism, but referred to by its originators as divisionism, neoimpressionism developed out of Seurat's and Signac's dissatisfaction with what they regarded as the formlessness and subjectivity of impressionism (see also postimpressionism).
For more information on copyright laws, please refer to the Artists Rights Society and Benedict O'Mahoney's The Copyright Web Site.
Revisit the era of the "Lost Generation" in Hemingway's Paris.
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 Art: 787G Impressionism and Postimpressionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Origins and development of Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and Neoimpressionism in European painting from 1850 to 1900.
Prerequisite: matriculation for the M.A. in art history or the M.F.A. in art or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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www.brooklyn.cuny.edu /bc/courses/gr/art/787.htm   (43 words)

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