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Signac and Georges Seurat were the leaders of a group awkwardly styled the neo-Impressionists. Seurat has always been seen as the inventor, Signac as the follower. This unfairly simple view should, with luck, be dispelled by the retrospective of some 120 oils, watercolors and drawings by Signac on view through Dec. 30 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, its only venue...
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...
...connections: the impulse to make them is so strong, so fundamentally human, that we connect with those who cannot make connections for themselves. We will the connectedness of particles. Stephen Sondheim seemed inspired by this idea in Sunday in the Park with George, as "piece by piece" he showed Seurat putting the contributing parts of a painting--bustles, parasols, dogs--together...
...Seurat had the advantage of being able to put things together newly after taking them apart. This Manchester cannot do. For him, the despair is especially deep, because he may dimly perceive new connections made of isolated events yet still not be able to link one event to another. He has lost the words, and the process of losing them, little by little, must have been terrible...
...master of the dot in French painting? Georges Seurat, most would answer. But there was at least one other: Seurat's friend and luminous fellow painter, Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac (1863-1935). Signac, an avid yachtsman, helped create the French Riviera as a subject for painting--and Saint-Tropez, where he settled from 1892 on, as a mecca for tourism. His pursuit of pure color sensation, the yellow of beaches and the purple of shade under the umbrella-pines, made his canvases radical in their time. Yet to a modern eye, his paradisiacal view of the world--a world...