Ways of pointillism
Subtitle: Seurat, Signac, Van Gogh
By: edited by Heinz Widauer ; with a preface by Klaus Albrecht Schröder and Lisette Pelsers, and essays by Michael Baumgartner [and 5 others] ; translations from German: Brigitte Willinger, Gerard A. Goodrow ; translations from French: David Radzinowicz
Contributors: Graphische Sammlung Albertina
Series: Ausstellung der Albertina -- 524th; Ausstellung der Albertina -- 524th.
Publisher: Albertina; Hirmer Verlag
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9783777426341; 9783777427393
Subjects: Neo-impressionism (Art); French Painting; Exhibitions
Description: With their pioneering method using dots, the artists of Pointillism no longer directed their gaze only towards the imitation of reality. In their paintings between 1886 and 1930 their dots, colour and light assumed an independent existence to create masterpieces of unprecedented brightness and colour diversity. 0The works by the inventors of this technique, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, marked the beginning of this exuberant outburst of colour. Works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Carlo Carrá, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee demonstrate how artists made a study of Pointillism during the 20th century. Vincent van Gogh contributed to the way that modernist painters abandoned Pointillism. More than 100 selected works, including paintings, watercolours and drawings, illuminate the dawn of a new era which this art movement was responsible for bringing about: the beginning of modern painting.
Notes: On the occasion of the exhibition held at Albertina, Vienna, September 16, 2016 - January 8, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Lisette Pelsers; title: "Pointillism" reception and impact / Heinz Widauer; title: Georges Seurat, the drawings and oil studies / Heinz Widauer; title: Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, the Harbourscapes / Heinz Widauer; title: Paul Signac, the Neo-Impressionist / Heinz Widauer; title: Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross, rescuers of Neo-Impressionism / Heinz Widauer; title: Maxmilien Luce and Achille Laugé, anarchy and confetti art / Heinz Widauer; title: Pointillism in Belgium and the Netherlandx / Liesbeth Heenk, Heinz Widauer; title: Vincent van Gogh and divisionism / Liesbeth Heenk, Heinz Widauer; title: Henri Matisse and André Derain, the Fauve Response / Claudine Grammont; title: Divisionism in Italy, from symbolist to electric light / Heinz Widauer; title: Picasso, point by point / Marie-Laure Bernadac; title: Piet Mondrian, the ultimate conclusion / Liesbeth Heenk, Helewise Berger; title: Paul Klee, "Pointillist" / Michael Baumgartner; title: List of exhibited works.