Paul Signac
- Painter
Collaborated with
They met in 1884 and made Neo-Impressionism together: pictures assembled from separated strokes according to contemporary theories of optical mixing. Signac was the organiser and the movement's writer.
- Painter
Georges Seurat
Painter of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, the systematic canvas whose arrival at the 1886 eighth exhibition announced that Impressionism's successors had come.
In images
Details
- 1859–1891
- 1859
- 1891
- French
- Painter
People they knew
Who they drew from
Camille Pissarro
The influence ran mostly the other way. Pissarro was in his mid-fifties when he took up the divided brushwork Seurat and Signac were developing, and he showed alongside them; what he gave back was the standing of a founding Impressionist willing to be taught.
Movements
Art movement · 1874–1886
Impressionism
Present only at the end, as the rupture: Pissarro brought Seurat and Signac into the eighth exhibition of 1886, where A Sunday on La Grande Jatte hung as catalogue no. 175 at the Maison Dorée, 1 rue Laffitte.
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Associated with · 1886
Impressionism
Present only at the end, as the rupture: Pissarro brought Seurat and Signac into the eighth exhibition of 1886, where A Sunday on La Grande Jatte hung as catalogue no. 175 at the Maison Dorée, 1 rue Laffitte.
Collaborated with
Paul Signac
They met in 1884 and made Neo-Impressionism together: pictures assembled from separated strokes according to contemporary theories of optical mixing. Signac was the organiser and the movement's writer.
Influenced by
Camille Pissarro
The influence ran mostly the other way. Pissarro was in his mid-fifties when he took up the divided brushwork Seurat and Signac were developing, and he showed alongside them; what he gave back was the standing of a founding Impressionist willing to be taught.