Movement · 1880s
Neo-Impressionism
A name coined by the critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 for the movement led by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, launched at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. Instead of recording light spontaneously, its painters applied scientific theories of colour, placing small dots or strokes of pure colour side by side.
Where it came from, where it went
- Grew out of1860sImpressionism
Painters used broken brushwork and changing light to capture a passing moment.
- This movement1880sNeo-Impressionism
- Led to1900sFauvism
French painters used vivid, non-naturalistic color and simplified forms.
- 1900sLuminism
A late Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist style devoted to effects of light, practised in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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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
- Georges Seurat
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Maximilien Luce
- Paul Signac
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
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