Neo-Impressionism

The method Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed in the mid-1880s, often called Pointillism or Divisionism. Instead of mixing colours on the palette, they placed small dots or dabs of pure colour side by side, according to scientific theories of optics, so that they would mix in the viewer's eye and shimmer. Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–86) is the manifesto: calm, carefully planned, almost geometric figures in a field of tiny points. Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross, Théo van Rysselberghe and Maximilien Luce carried it on, and in Italy the Divisionists adapted it.

How to tell it apart: look closely: a surface made of regular dots or small square strokes, with stiff, deliberate figures; Impressionist strokes are looser and less systematic.

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Artists

Vincent van Gogh · Henri Matisse · Georges Seurat · Paul Klee · Camille Pissarro · Robert Delaunay · Paul Signac · Giovanni Segantini · Henri-Edmond Cross · Mikhail Larionov · Théo van Rysselberghe · Jan Toorop · Maximilien Luce · Anna Boch · Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin · Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo · Charles Angrand · Georges Lemmen · Ivan Grohar · Alfred William Finch · George-Daniel de Monfreid · Ludvig Karsten

Best-known works

“Bathers at Asnières” — Georges Seurat, 1884
“The Night Café” — Vincent van Gogh, 1888
“The Circus” — Georges Seurat, 1891
“Luxe, Calme et Volupté” — Henri Matisse, 1904
“The Models” — Georges Seurat, 1886
“Port de Marseilles” — Paul Signac, 1907
“The Circus Parade” — Georges Seurat, 1888
“The Fourth Estate” — Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, 1901
“Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain” — Camille Pissarro, 1897
“Le Chahut” — Georges Seurat, 1889
“Young Woman Powdering Herself” — Georges Seurat, 1889
“The Pine Tree at Saint Tropez” — Paul Signac, 1909
“Place du Theatre-Francais in Spring” — Camille Pissarro, 1898
“The Big Walnut Tree, Autumn Morning, Éragny” — Camille Pissarro, 1897
“Rue de l'Épicerie, Rouen (Effect of Sunlight)” — Camille Pissarro, 1898
“Hay Harvest at Éragny” — Camille Pissarro, 1901
“Love at the Fountain of Life” — Giovanni Segantini, 1896
“Boulevard Montmartre, Spring” — Camille Pissarro, 1897
“The Quai Malaquais and the Institute (de France), Spring, Sunlight (Fourth Series)” — Camille Pissarro, 1903
“The Eiffel Tower” — Georges Seurat, 1889
“Boulevard Montmartre, Mardi Gras” — Camille Pissarro, 1897
“Steamboats in the Port of Rouen” — Camille Pissarro, 1896
“The Boulevard Montmartre at Night” — Camille Pissarro, 1897
“Still Life with a Coffeepot” — Camille Pissarro, 1900
“The Town Fair by the Church of Saint-Jacques in Dieppe, Morning, Sunlight” — Camille Pissarro, 1901
“The Sower” — Ivan Grohar, 1907
“The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning” — Camille Pissarro, 1897
“The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe” — Georges Seurat, 1890
“The House of the Deaf Woman and the Belfry at Eragny” — Camille Pissarro, 1886
“Port of La Rochelle” — Paul Signac, 1915