He replaced impressionisms casual spontaneity with discipline and order. He used current scientific theories of color and developed a systematic method of painting called pointillism. He applied his paint by means of small dots and thereby achieved what he called optical mixture and greater luminosity. For this reason, the artists who adopted seurats technique became known as neoimpressionists. By the 1880s, there was a new generation of the avantgarde who lived and worked in an area north of the recently modernized center of paris. Seurat had his studio on the corner of tichy boulevard. Paul signac lived around the corner. Vincent van gogh joined them when he arrived from holland in 1886. There was still general agreement that modern paris was the proper subject for advanced ambitious painting. What was new was the variety of competing styles with which artists responded to both impressionism and seurats neoimpressionism. Emile bernard turned to japanese and medieval art to find his a
For the avantgarde of the 1880s. No ambitious artist could paint without acknowledging what seurat had done to typical impressionist subject matter. Seurats innovation was also his style. His compositions are rigorously formal. He replaced impressionisms casual spontaneity with discipline and order. He used current scientific theories of color and developed a systematic method of painting called pointillism. He applied his paint by means of small dots and thereby achieved what he called optical mixture and greater luminosity. For this reason, the artists who adopted seurats technique became known as neoimpressionists. By the 1880s there was a new generation of the avantgarde who lived and worked in an area north of the recently modernized center of paris. Seurat had his studio on the corner of tichy boulevard. Paul signac lived around the corner. Vincent van gogh joined them when he arrived from holland in 1886. There was still general agreement that modern paris was the proper subject