Who painted “The Fourth Estate”?

“The Fourth Estate” was painted by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo in 1901. Where to see it: Galleria d'arte moderna di Milano.

Neo-Impressionism

What to look for

Neo-Impressionism: look closely: a surface made of regular dots or small square strokes, with stiff, deliberate figures; Impressionist strokes are looser and less systematic.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian Divisionist painter. Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a Divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to a specific colour theory. Wikipedia

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