Divisionism
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Divisionism, also called chromoluminarism, is the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches that interact optically.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884
Signac Portrait de Félix Fénéon
Self portrait with Felt Hat
Jean Metzinger, 1906, La dance, oil on canvas, 73 x 54 cm DSC05359.
Georges Seurat
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Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surf
Divisionism
…colors optically instead of physically mixing pigments, Divisionists believed that they were achieving the maximum luminosity scientifically possible. Georges Seurat founded the style around 1884 as chromoluminarism, drawing from his understanding of the scientific theories of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood and…
Seurat in 1888
Georges Seurat, 1889–90, Le Chahut, oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Bathers at Asnières, 1884, oil on canvas, 201 × 301 cm, National Gallery, London
Jeune femme se poudrant (Young Woman Powdering Herself), 1888–1890, oil on canvas, 95.5 x 79.5 cm, Courtauld Institute of Art