Where did paul signac live
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Georges Seurat
French painter (1859–1891)
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Georges Pierre Seurat (SUR-ah, -ə, suu-RAH;[1][2][3][4][5]French:[ʒɔʁʒpjɛʁsœʁa];[6] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
Seurat's artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind.[7] His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.[8]
Biography
Family and education
Seurat was born on 2 December 1859
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The advent of Neo-Impressionism
It was a visit to Claude Monet‘s first monographic exhibition, in June 1880, which inspired the young Paul Signac to become a painter. He started painting, self-taught, the following year. Around the same time, he began rowing on the Seine, aboard a small boat called Manet-Zola-Wagner. After painting, navigation was his life’s great passion.
In 1884, Signac exhibited at the first Salon des artistes indépendants. There he met Georges Seurat, with whom he shared a deep admiration for Eugène Delacroix and an interest in scientific works dealing with the perception of colours. They initiated a new style of painting based on the division of tones, which would soon be called Neo-Impressionism.
Through Armand Guillaumin, Signac meets Camille Pissarro, who arranged for him and Seurat to take part in the eighth and last exhibition of the Impressionist group, in 1886. The death of Seurat, at only 31 years old, in 1891, left Signac the sole leader of Neo-Impressionism.
Saint-Tropez: from light to colour
In 1892, Signac discovered Saint-Tropez wher
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(b Paris, 11 Nov. 1863; d Paris, 15 Aug. 1935). French painter, printmaker, and writer. He began in the Impressionist manner, but met Seurat in 1884 and became an ardent disciple of his views and technical method. After Seurat's death in 1891 he was the acknowledged leader of the Neo-Impressionist group, and in 1899 he published D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionnisme, which was long regarded as the authoritative work on the subject. The book was, however, more in the nature of a manifesto in defence of the movement than an objective history. It reflected Signac's use of more brilliant colour from about 1890, as he moved away from the scientific precision advocated by Seurat to a freer and more spontaneous manner. His work had a great influence on Matisse, who visited him at St Tropez in 1904 (a keen yachtsman, Signac spent a good deal of time on the Mediterranean and French Atlantic coasts; harbour scenes were his favourite subjects).
Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxf
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