Facts about Neo-Impressionism

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   In Neo-Impressionism, artists applied paint in small, distinct strokes or dots of unmixed color, relying on optical mixing in the viewer's eye rather than blending pigments on the palette.

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   A scientific basis for Neo-Impressionism came from color theorists like Michel Eugène Chevreul and Ogden Rood, whose writings on simultaneous contrast influenced Seurat's method.

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   Paul Signac became a leading advocate of Neo-Impressionism and helped spread the movement through his 1899 theoretical work D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionnisme.

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   The critic Félix Fénéon coined the term Neo-Impressionism in 1886 to describe the movement pioneered by Seurat and Signac.

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   Georges Seurat founded Neo-Impressionism in the 1880s, developing the systematic technique of pointillism using tiny dots of pure color.

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