Word: seurat
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...began painting landscapes-out of doors in 1822, when he was 26. A rover who toted his easel all over France, Italy and the Low Countries, he captured farmhouses, fishing villages, animals and people in muted colors of luminous clarity. He had a sense of structure that both Seurat and Cezanne admired, but he was more interested in the surface of nature than in its interior turbulence. His quiet scenes were sometimes a bit melancholy, sometimes vibrant with a profound...
Hyppolyte Petitjean's attempt to come to terms with academic subject matter using a late Impressionist but revealing "En arcadie" Archaic figures, who might have come from Poussin, disport themselves in structurally significant positions, but the light that diffuses over them breaks up into the pointillism of Seurat. Petitjean's attempt produces something of a curiosity - it is an if the lightheaded figures form Poussin's "Baccahanale" (in Mr. Chrysler's collection) had been suddenly calmed by a curious atmosphere they did not understand, the atmosphere of "La Grande Jatte...
...yellow cow by German Expressionist Franz Marc looks like something out of a child's nursery rhyme. Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...
...when U.S. art galleries were the private preserve of the plutocracy, an $18-a-week office worker named Edith Halpert ventured uneasily into the domain of Manhattan Dealer Joseph Brummer, offered him a down payment on a then $650 Seurat. Growled Brummer contemptuously: "Go to Macy...
There is a middle ground between these two extremes of style. In his atmospheric etchings. Harold Altman uses long, thin strokes to create a highly abstract atmosphere through which people and objects appear, much as images appear through the dots of a Seurat drawing. Another artist of this "moderate" group, Rudy Puzzeti, exhibits Tower of Babel, an atmospheric evocation of Breughel's famed painting on the same subject...