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Neo-ImpressionismMovement in French painting of the late 19th century, in reaction against the realism of Impressionism. The Neo-Impressionists, led by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, applied paint to canvas in dots of contrasting pigments, scientifically chosen so that adjacent dots would blend from a distance into a single colour. The technique is known as pointillism. Whereas the Impressionists captured the fugitive effects of colour and light, the Neo-Impressionists crystallized them into immobile monumentality. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Cross, who is sometimes identified as a neo-Impressionist, was a friend of Signac, the better known pointillist master. Pissarro, meanwhile, renewed himself from the late 1880s onward by being receptive to the neo-Impressionist style known as The 6th Symphony is generally considered an extraordinary achievement, the Frescos of Pierro della Francesca are in the same, Neo-impressionist vein, and the three-part suite recalling some key orchestral passages from Julietta (in the arrangement by Zbynek Vostrak) apploaches his late symphonies and equals them in intensity of beauty. |
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