#Neo Impressionism

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I'm thinking about Stanley's sketchbook again, and can you IMAGINE how art movements at the time could have affected his art??? I'm not exactly an art history expert but from what I remember, Pop Art was only just going out of style during the 1970-somethings, when people started to look more towards Neo-Impressionism late 1970- early 1980s, and good LORD that was a whole thing /pos

Idk how he would have even seen the art movement?? I'm not sure how art was distributed to the public back then, especially from the point of view of homeless people. Could they have been displayed on storefront windows or newspapers, or were they a NYC SoHo art scene exclusive thing? Idk!! But the thought of Stan experimenting with his style is gnawing at my brain!!!!

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Dan McCaw Landscape Within, 2022 Oil on canvas.

[artschoolglasses]

Roses, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

Just a reminder that the “tortured artist” trope is a myth. Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous and beloved works are not bleak and depressing; they’re filled with hope, and reverence for the beauty of the world around him. He was not a great artist because of his pain, he was a great artist because of his hope, in spite of his pain.

[tigrikorn]

Vincent Van Gogh Dutch 1853 - 1890 Self-Portrait, 1887, Oil on artist's board, mounted on crafted paper.

The intense colors and energetic brushwork of this self-portrait may hint at the artist's turbulent inner life. Vincent van Gogh suffered from bouts of depression and anxiety and came to painting after struggling to find professional footing as a pastor, teacher, and art dealer. In selecting the palette for this work, he followed Neo-Impressionist color theory which held that color opposites such as blue and yellow or read and green create a vibrating optical effect when laid down next to each other. Gut what for other artists was a method based on the cool objectivity of science became in Van Gogh's hands and emotional language. Here the blue-green of the background sets off the orange red of the artist hair and beard bringing focus to his arresting expression.

On display at the Art Institute of Chicago

[oncanvas]

Moulin d'Edam, Paul Signac, 1896

Oil on canvas 25 ⅝ x 32 ⅛ in. (65.2 x 81.4 cm)

[ave-atqve-vale]

Vincent Van Gogh, L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890, Musée d’Orsay.

[dropdome]

The Black Bow, George Seurat 1882

[writing-for-life]

Springtime—Georges Seurat

[the-cricket-chirps]

Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Acacia Branches, 1890

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Landscape with Stars (1905 - 1908) - Henri-Edmond Cross

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Dan McCaw Untitled, 2023 Oil on board.

[artsandculture]

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884) 🎨 Georges Seurat 🏛️ The Art Institute of Chicago 📍 Chicago, United States

In his best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people relaxing in a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte. The artist worked on the painting in several campaigns, beginning in 1884 with a layer of small horizontal brushstrokes of complementary colors. He later added small dots, also in complementary colors, that appear as solid and luminous forms when seen from a distance.Seurat's use of this highly systematic and "scientific" technique, subsequently called Pointillism, distinguished his art from the more intuitive approach to painting used by the Impressionists. Although Seurat embraced the subject matter of modern life preferred by artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he went beyond their concern for capturing the accidental and instantaneous qualities of light in nature. Seurat sought to evoke permanence by recalling the art of the past, especially Egyptian and Greek sculpture and even Italian Renaissance frescoes. As he explained to the French poet Gustave Kahn, "The Panathenaeans of Phidias formed a procession. I want to make modern people, in their essential traits, move about as they do on those friezes, and place them on canvases organized by harmonies of color." Some contemporary critics, however, found his figures to be less a nod to earlier art history than a commentary on the posturing and artificiality of modern Parisian society. Seurat made the final changes to La Grande Jatte in 1889. He re-stretched the canvas in order to add a painted border of red, orange, and blue dots that provides a visual transition between the interior of the painting and his specially designed white frame.

[classicalcanvas]

Title: Fishing in the Spring

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Date: 1887

Style: Neo-Impressionism

Genre: Genre Painting

[frogmuse]

[oncanvas]

Paris, la place du Théâtre du Châtelet, Maximilien Luce, circa 1900

Oil on canvas 25 ½ x 31 ½ in. (65 x 80 cm)