ne·o·im·pres·sion·ism

or ne·o-im·pres·sion·ism (nē′ō-ĭm-prĕsh′ə-nĭz′əm)

A movement in late 19th-century painting led by Georges Seurat that was stricter and more formal than impressionism in composition and employed pointillism as a technique.

ne′o·im·pres′sion·ist adj. & n.

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neoimpressionism

(ˌniːəʊɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm)

(Art Movements) a movement in French painting initiated mainly by Seurat in the 1880s and combining his vivid colour technique with strictly formal composition. See also pointillism

ˌneoimˈpressionist n, adj

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Meanwhile, with Seurat, he set off to articulate the theories of neoimpressionism. After the untimely death of Seurat from respiratory infection at age 31, Signac became the sole advocate and leader of the movement.

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The writer does not put emphasis on Anglo-American modernisms such as neoimpressionism, neocubism, neorealism (however, I believe that such movements are global phenomena rather than mere Anglo-American ones as some tend to think, because such movements especially in art are still going on in geographies like Nepal, India etc) etc .

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The Brucke artists were equally enthusiastic about French neoimpressionism, post-impressionism and fauvism, as well as African and Oceanic art.

Taking a new route through modern art: as part of its Transformation project, Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collections of 20th-century art have been reinstalled in the Ahmanson Building. As Stephanie Barron explains, the collection has itself been transformed by a munificent gift of 130 paintings, sculptures and drawings from Janice and Henri Lazarof, which includes 20 works by Picasso