A simple powerpoint about the art era neo-impressionism

1. Neo
Impressionism
T h e E r a o f D i vi s i o n i s m &
P o i n t i l l i s m

2. What is Neo
Impressionism ?

3. What is Neo - Impressionism?
Neo-Impressionism is an
movement in French painting of the late
19th century that reacted against the
empirical realism of Impressionism by
relying on systematic calculation and
scientific theory to achieve predetermined
visual effects.
Neo-Impressionism is a term
coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon
in 1886 to describe an art movement
founded by Georges Seurat.

4. What is Neo - Impressionism?
Most of the Neo-Impressionists held
anarchist beliefs. Their depictions of the
working class and peasants called attention
to the social struggles taking place as the
rise of industrial capitalism gained speed,
and their search for harmony in art
paralleled their vision of a utopian society.
The freedom they sought in scientific study
furthered their abilities to overthrow
bourgeois norms and conventions that
hampered their individual autonomy.

5. What is Neo - Impressionism?
In order to more fully capture the
luminosity seen in nature, the Neo-
Impressionists turned to science in finding
their painting technique of juxtaposing
various colors and tones to create a
shimmering, illuminated surface. By
systematically placing contrasting colors,
as well as black, white, and grey, next to
each other on the canvas, the painters
hoped to heighten the visual sensation of
the image.

6. Characteristics
W h a t a r e t h e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f
N e o - I m p r e s s i o n i s m ?

7. Characteristics
• Divisionism
• Pointillism
In Neo – Impressionism, there are
two characteristics that defines this art
movement and the style that is being used
within this movement.

8. Divisionism
also called Chromo-
luminarism, is a color theory
that advocates placing small
patches of pure pigment
separately on the canvas in
order that the viewer's eye
will optically blend the colors.
Divisionism became widely
applied to any artist dividing
or separating color while
using small brushstrokes.

9. Pointillism
Pointillism relied on the same theory
of optical blending but specifically applied
tiny separate "points," or dots, of pigment.

10. Other Characteristics
The style also features
luminescent surfaces, a stylized
deliberateness that emphasizes a
decorative design and an artificial
lifelessness in the figures and
landscapes. Neo-Impressionists
painted in the studio, instead of
outdoors as the Impressionists
had. The style focuses on
contemporary life and landscapes
and is carefully ordered rather
than spontaneous in technique
and intention

11. Proponents
T h e m a i n p r o p o n e n t s o f N e o –
I m p r e s s i o n i s m a n d e x a m p l e o f
t h e i r w o r k s

12. Georges Seurat
was a French post-Impressionist artist. He
is best known for devising the painting techniques
known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. While
less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon
drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical
appreciation. Seurat's artistic personality was
compounded of qualities which are usually supposed
to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand,
his extreme and delicate sensibility; on the other, a
passion for logical abstraction and an almost
mathematical precision of mind.

13. A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte (1884-1886)

14. Paul Signac
Born in Paris on 11 November 1863. He
followed a course of training in architecture before
deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a
painter after attending an exhibit of Monet's work.
In 1884 he met Claude Monet and Georges
Seurat. He was struck by the systematic working
methods of Seurat and by his theory of colors and
became Seurat's faithful supporter, friend and heir
with his description of Neo-Impressionism and
Divisionism method. Under Seurat's influence he
abandoned the short brushstrokes of Impressionism
to experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small
dots of pure color, intended to combine and blend
not on the canvas but in the viewer's eye, the
defining feature of Pointillism.

15. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and
Tints, Portrait of Félix Fénéon (1890)

16. Camille Pissarro
was a Danish-French Impressionist and
Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St
Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in
the Danish West Indies).
His importance resides in his contributions
to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including
Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
He later studied and worked alongside
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on
the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

17. La Récolte des Foins, Éragny (1887)

18. Albert Dubois-Pillet
Louis-Auguste-Albert Dubois was born on 28
October 1846 in Paris. Shortly thereafter, his family moved
to Toulouse, where he was raised. In 1867, he graduated
from l'Ecole Impériale Militaire in Saint-Cyr and began his
career as a military officer. He remained in the army for the
rest of his life
Although self-taught, with no formal art
education, he proved to be a talented artist. Around 1885,
probably influenced by his friendships with Seurat and
others, he began experimenting with Divisionist techniques,
and he embraced Pointillism – one of the first artists to do
so. By the next year, his works were fully Neo-
impressionist. With Signac, he used pen and ink to create
pointillist drawings. Dubois-Pillet's studio-apartment served
as the unofficial Neo-impressionist headquarters during the
movement's early years. Some of his pointillist work is
composed with "photographic precision".

19. La Dame àla Robe Blanche (Woman in
White) (1886-1887)

20. “Activity
1) Draw a sketch using Divisionism or
Pointillism or both.
2) It can be anything under the weather.
(shape, object, scene, anything)
3) Be creative!!!!!

21. The End