French1859–1891
Georges Seurat
The painter who built pictures from tiny dots of pure colour, a method called pointillism. He died at thirty-one, but his method shaped Neo-Impressionism.
A life in paintings
- 1859Born
- 1881
- 1884The Salon des Indépendants
A new annual exhibition with no jury opens in Paris. Anyone who pays can show.
Source: WikipediaWorked with Paul SignacParisSeurat and Signac met at the founding of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1884 and together developed Neo-Impressionism; after Seurat's early death in 1891 Signac became its chief theorist.
Source: Wikipedia - 1886The last Impressionist exhibition
Seurat shows a huge picture made of dots, and the group splits over it.
- 1889The Paris World’s Fair
The Eiffel Tower opens for the Exposition Universelle, and Paris shows itself as the capital of the modern world.
Source: Wikipedia - 1891Died
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Exhibition · Paris · 1874
Impressionist exhibitions
The eight independent group shows, 1874-1886. Pissarro alone showed at all eight; Cassatt at four; Renoir 1874, 1876, 1877, 1882; Seurat and Signac only at the 8th (1886). Manet never exhibited with them.
- Alfred Sisley
- Camille Pissarro
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Mary Cassatt
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Society · Paris · 1884
Société des Artistes Indépendants
Jury-free annual salon founded 1884 by Seurat, Signac, Dubois-Pillet, Redon and others. Home of Neo-Impressionism; Henri Rousseau first showed there in 1886.
- Fernand Léger
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Maximilien Luce
- Paul Signac
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
Where to see them
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
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