Word: seurat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artist. On the evidence of this show, he was far and away the most gifted painter of his generation in prewar Munich. Even his student drawings of the nude have a wiry and controlled strength in their ink-brushed line. Others might, and did, imitate Monet, or Beardsley, or Seurat, or the bright, flat patterns of "primitive" Austrian folk art; only Kandinsky could bring such diverse strands successfully together in the mysterious speckling and blooming of color over flat decorative shapes that lit up a painting like Riding Couple...
...1880s, Pissarro's work took a sharp turn toward pointillism, or "neo-impressionism," the dissection of light into swarms of tiny colored dots, which had been developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. So complete was his conversion and so short-lived-it lasted only five years-that it is hard to think of another artist of comparable talent and sincerity who was ever changed so sharply by men 30 years his junior. Certainly Pissarro was not scrambling onto a bandwagon...
Their work, after all, was precisely what the founders of modern art - Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Matisse " - had set themselves against: | pompier realism, with its gleaners, nuns and goosegirls, its moralizing illusionism, heavy sentiment and lentil-soup colors. It was "photo graphic" - a single word, damnation enough. But in 1 98 1 taste in such matters has not merely shifted, it has come full circle. The exhibition now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900," would not even have been attempted by an American museum 15 years ago; the subject...
...fine metal lines. Largely because of the intensity of Van Gogh's genius, cloisonism became one of the key modernist styles, the sign of a new concern with the semantics of art (which were being explored in a totally different way by Cezanne in Aix and by Seurat with his light-filled dots), indicating a degree of aesthetic fundamentalism that had not been seen since Ingres...
...Emma Bovary's life was built up, and the minutely articulated jumble of reflections behind the blank-faced nana in Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. Both works, in a sense, point forward to the "objective," molecular constellations of dabbed light from which Seurat assembled his figures on the speckled lawn of the Grande Jatte. If the origins of one aspect of the avant-garde lie with Courbet, those of the other are to be found in Manet: in detachment and irony, art contemplates its nature as a language, without hope of changing...