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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 days agoThe National Gallery's new exhibition includes Van Gogh's brief foray into Neo-Impressionism
Van Gogh's The Sower uses Neo-Impressionist dot-and-dash technique while centring the sun as a spiritual symbol linking divine action and natural growth.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days agoRadical Harmony review Seurat's shimmering visions blow away his spotty dotty imitators
Georges Seurat had kaleidoscope eyes. He saw in limitless colours, that swarm and bubble on his canvases in galaxies of tiny dots. Choosing random, barren subjects an empty harbour, a rock he found endless wonder in the most banal reality. In his 1888 painting Port-en-Bessin, a Sunday, myriad blues and whites create a hazy sky and mirroring water while a railing in the foreground
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week agoNeo-Impressionism makes its thoroughly Modernist point at National Gallery in London
Neo-Impressionism was a radical, international precursor to abstraction and Fauvism, using optical mixture and pointillist technique to explore color and non-representational composition.
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