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Signac never achieved a masterpiece of the order of Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, but how many painters have? In the late 1880s and early 1890s, though, he brought off a sequence of ravishingly beautiful landscapes that stand with the best of late 19th century art, along with some remarkable figure paintings...
Luck--and a yachtsman's robust health--granted Signac some 40 years more than Seurat got. But he never painted better than he did in the late 1880s and early 1890s. His best pictures of the Cote d'Azur--of Cassis, of St.-Tropez--possess a wonderful rigor, density and subtlety of color. The danger inherent in pointillism was that all those microdots, if their tonal relations were not perfectly controlled, could look like a bad case of measles. In his middle years Signac almost always avoided this. The seascapes become what they are meant to be: a vibration...
...term anti-Semitism was coined by the German Wilhelm Marr in the 1880s and it was meant to distinguish itself from anti-Judaism. Whereas anti-Judaism was seen to be based on religious hatred, the new “enlightened,” “scientific” anti-Semitism was a hatred of the Jews as a race. The old anti-Judaism was outdated; anti-Semitism allowed its adherents to hate the Jews in a modern way. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, anti-Semitism is “theory, action, or practice directed against the Jews...
Sunday focuses its first act on George Seurat, the impressionist artist who created “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte.” The opening act, set in the 1880s, follows the progress of George’s work, presenting snapshots of the various individuals that provide inspiration for the painting—a baker, a nurse, a boatman, et al. Their appearances are brief, their depth non-existent; they exist to the audience only as they exist to George. Yet George, who skillfully observes his subjects—effortlessly taking them apart...
...with Western powers was a strategy of defensive mimicry. This was in a sense a Japanese tradition. At various stages in its history, Japan took on the colors of the powers it respected or feared most. So it was in the early Meiji period, especially the 1870s and 1880s...