Written by Sir Lawrence Gowing
Written by Sir Lawrence Gowing
Western painting
Written by Sir Lawrence Gowing
Until Seurat no painter had expressly founded a style on the intrinsic reactions of colour to colour and a codified vocabulary of expressive forms. The consistent granulation of colour in Seurat’s work from 1885 onward was specific to the picture, not to the sensation or the subject. The coherent images of space and light that he made out of this granulation ended with him. Seurat’s followers, grouped as Neo-Impressionists under the leadership of Paul Signac, developed his technique rather than his vision. Seurat’s influence was nonetheless widespread and fertile; his system in itself supplied ... (100 of 71,656 words)The end of the 19th-century tradition