AFTER THE IMPRESSIONISTS TALK 4: SEURAT
The Post-Impressionists as Change Makers series of talks
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With Juliet Heslewood, art historian and author
The first Impressionist exhibition was in 1874 and caused disruption in the Parisian art world. By the end of the century artists had explored its innovations, liberating them from the conventions of the past. Their dramatic changes, achieved out of the movement, would have wide-spread repercussions, establishing Paris as the centre of the modern European stage.
In this talk, Juliet discusses how Georges Seurat chose to reduce the swift, visible brushstroke a tiny dot that may have been entirely unspontaneous, but encouraged Impressionists such as Pissarro to radically change their style.
Seurat died young, but through his contemporaries Signac and Van Gogh, 'Pointillism' survived.
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