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Unfortunately, most of the complaints regarding the Core’s supposed lack of options and lack of rigor amount to no more than empty shibboleths and misconceptions...
Sometimes Summers’ rigor was misinterpreted as opposition...
Both Signac and Seurat strove to give a noble, architectural permanence to fleeting effects by analyzing shape and light in terms of dots of color. They wanted rigor and system, not Impressionist spontaneity. Each man influenced the other; Seurat was the greater artist, but it was a real partnership. Thus it was Signac who persuaded Seurat, and not the other way round, to purify his color by banishing earth pigments from his palette. Later Signac would give up on the dot, using larger spots in a sort of mosaic. Under the influence of Turner, whose luminous watercolors and oils...
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...
...best efforts, I have yet to find a way of uncrossing and recrossing my legs without at least partially flashing an interviewer (note that, perhaps, this explains why the wearing of skirts is encouraged). But, even putting my petty complaints aside, even exercising the highest level of analytic rigor, I still cannot figure out what wearing a skirt has to do with my qualifications...