Georges Seurat
- 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
Paul Signac
Co-founder of Neo-Impressionism with Georges Seurat, and one of the two younger painters who talked Camille Pissarro into painting in dots.
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- 1863–1935
- 11 November 1863
- Paris
- 15 August 1935
- Paris
- French
- Painter
About Paul Signac
Paul Signac met Georges Seurat in 1884 and the two of them built Neo-Impressionism out of contemporary colour theory: pictures assembled from small separated strokes, calculated rather than caught. Signac was the movement's organiser and its writer, and he kept working in the manner for the rest of his life, loosening the touch into the broad mosaic squares of his later watercolours and harbour scenes.
His importance to this graph is what happened to Camille Pissarro, who was in his mid-fifties, a founder of Impressionism, and willing to be taught by two men half his age. Pissarro painted in divided colour from the mid-1880s to about 1890 before deciding the method was too slow for what he wanted, and kept the colour lessons afterwards.
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Who drew from them
Camille Pissarro
Signac and Seurat built Neo-Impressionism out of colour theory, and Pissarro — a founder of Impressionism in his mid-fifties — took up their divided brushwork from the mid-1880s until about 1890.
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Collaborated with
Georges Seurat
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
Camille Pissarro
Signac and Seurat built Neo-Impressionism out of colour theory, and Pissarro — a founder of Impressionism in his mid-fifties — took up their divided brushwork from the mid-1880s until about 1890.