Everything about Neo-impressionism totally explained
Neo-Impressionism is a term
coined by the French art critic
Félix Fénéon in 1887 to characterise the late-
19th century art movement led by
Georges Seurat and
Paul Signac, who first exhibited their work in 1884 at the exhibition of the
Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris. Fénéon's term pointed to the roots of this recent development in the visual arts in
Impressionism, but offered at the same time a fresh reading of artistic means like color and line based on the practice of Seurat and Signac, and its theoretical background in the writings of
Chevreul and
Charles Blanc.
Review
A technique of the Neo-Impressionists, called
Chromoluminarism or Divisionism, involves breaking color into its basic elements, by painting in very small and regular dots. From a distance the multiple dots form an optical mixture of color. The best known example is Seurat's
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886).
The definition Seurat and Signac provided for their way to analyze - vulgo,
to see - and to reproduce reality is consistent. Hostile critics coined the term
Pointillism to humiliate the artists working in this way; a century later, this term is relevant for the evaluation of former critical positions. The term "Pointillism" can also describe the work of later followers and imitators of the Neo-Impressionists who paint in dots, though not necessarily with the aim of breaking color.
List of Neo-Impressionists
Concise gallery of Neo-Impressionists
Image:Charles Théophile Angrand 001.jpg|Charles Angrand, 1887
Image:Henri Edmond Cross 001.jpg|Henri Edmond Cross, c.1900
Image:Portrait-Alice-Sethe-1888.jpg|Theo van Rysselberghe, 1888
Image:Camille Pissarro 016.jpg|Camille Pissarro, 1889
Image:Matisse-Luxe.jpg|Henri Matisse, 1904
The Group of Néo-Impressionist Painters
Neo-Impressionism was first presented to the public, in 1884, at the
Société des Artistes Indépendants. The
Indépendants remained their main exhibition space for decades with Signac acting as president of the association. But with the success of Neo-Impressionism, its fame spread quickly. In 1886, Seurat and Signac were invited to exhibit in the 8th and final
Impressionist exhibition, later with
Les XX and
La Libre Esthétique in
Brussels.
Finally, in 1892, a group of
Néo-Impressionist Painters united to show their works in
Paris, "
in the Salons of the Hôtel Brébant, 32, boulevard Poissonnière." The following year they exhibited at "
20, rue Laffitte". The exhibitions were accompanied by catalogues, the first with reference to the printer:
Imp. Vve Monnom, Brussels; the second refers to "
M. Moline", secretary.
2 December 1892 - 8 January 1893
Participants: Alexandre-L.M. Charpentier - Henri-Edmond Cross - Léo Gausson - Maximilien Luce - Hippolyte Petitjean - Lucien Pissarro - the late Georges Seurat - Paul Signac - Theo Van Rysselberghe
December 1893 - January 1894
Participants: Charles Angrand - Henri-Edmond Cross - Maximilien Luce - Hippolyte Petitjean - Lucien Pissarro - Georges Pissarro - Félix Pissarro - Antoine de la Rochefoucauld - the late Georges Seurat - Paul Signac - Theo Van Rysselberghe
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