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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
La Grande Jatte
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884.jpg
Artist Georges Seurat
Year 1884–1886
Type Oil on canvas
Location Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Portrait of Félix Fénéon
Signac - Portrait de Félix Fénéon.jpg
Artist Paul Signac
Year 1890
Type Oil on canvas
Location Museum of Modern Art, New York


Neo-impressionism is a term coined by a French art critic in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat’s greatest masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement when it appeared at an exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris.

Around this time, many painters were in search of new methods. Followers of neo-impressionism were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as landscapes and seashores. Science-based interpretation of lines and colours influenced neo-impressionists’ characterization of their own contemporary art. Pointillism is often mentioned, because it was the dominant technique in the beginning of the movement.

The art critic Félix Fénéon first used the term neo-impressionism in an article he wrote for the Belgian journal L’art Moderne in 1886. With the term he wanted to show that the way Seurat painted was different from the ways painting was done in Impressionism. In total, the movement lasted about five years.

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  • Signac - Portrait de Félix Fénéon

    Paul Signac, 1890, Portrait of Félix Fénéon (in front of an enamel of a rhythmic background of measures and angles, shades and colors), oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.5 cm (28.9 × 36.4 in.), Museum of Modern Art, New York

  • Henri-Edmond Cross - The Evening Air - Google Art Project

    Henri-Edmond Cross, The Evening Air (l'Air du soir), c. 1893, oil on canvas, 116 × 164 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

  • Georges Seurat 019

    Georges Seurat, Le Cirque, 1891, oil on canvas, 185 x 152 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

  • Paul Signac, 1893, Femme à l'ombrelle, oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm, Musée d'Orsay

    Paul Signac, 1893, Femme à l'ombrelle, oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

  • Quarto Stato

    Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, The Fourth Estate, 1899-1901.

  • Charles Théophile Angrand 001

    Charles Angrand, Couple dans la rue, 1887, oil on canvas, 38.5 x 33 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

  • Portrait-Alice-Sethe-1888

    Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Alice Sethe, 1888, Musée départemental Maurice Denis "The Priory", Saint-Germain-en-Laye

  • Camille Pissarro 016

    Camille Pissarro, Hay harvest at Eragny-sur-Epte, 1889, oil on canvas, 73 × 60 cm, private collection

  • Georges Lemmen - Plage à Heist

    Georges Lemmen, The Beach at Heist), 1891, oil on panel, 37.5 x 45.7 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

  • Henri-Edmond Cross, 1908, Les cyprès à Cagnes, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

    Henri-Edmond Cross, Les cyprès à Cagnes, 1908, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

  • Robert Antoine Pinchon, 1905, La Seine à Rouen au crépuscule, oil on paperboard, 65 x 54 cm

    Robert Antoine Pinchon, La Seine à Rouen au crépuscule, 1905, oil on paperboard, 65 x 54 cm, private collection

  • Jean Metzinger, c.1906, Femme au Chapeau (Woman with a Hat), oil on canvas, 44.8 x 36.8 cm, Korban Art Foundation.

    Jean Metzinger, Femme au Chapeau, c.1906, oil on canvas, 44.8 x 36.8 cm, Korban Art Foundation

  • Robert Delaunay, 1906, Portrait de Metzinger, oil on canvas, 55 x 43 cm, DSC08255

    Robert Delaunay, Portrait de Metzinger, 1906, oil on canvas, 55 x 43 cm

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