Paul Signac

Paul Signac ( born November 11, 1863 in Paris, † August 15, 1935 ) was a French painter and graphic artist and alongside Georges Seurat 's most important artists of the Neo - Impressionism and Pointillism.

Life

As an artist, Signac was a self-taught. His artistic model were initially Claude Monet and the Impressionists. However, he rejected the idea of ​​spontaneous search and advocated a stricter, through-composed painting in the sense of classics such as Eugène Delacroix

In 1884 he met Georges Seurat and developed jointly with him Divisionist painting. For your painting they made new scientific discoveries of color theory advantage and put pigments of pure color in countless dots suddenly next to each other. Unlike the Impressionists no longer mixed the paint on the palette or on the canvas, but leaving this to the eye of the beholder. The luminosity of these unblended, unclouded color is thus optimally preserved. In the same year Signac founded with other artists the Societe des Artistes Independants. In 1885 he met Seurat and Camille Pissarro, who also discovered this way of painting for himself and adapted. 1886, the three made ​​as a group together with Pissarro's son in a separate room on the 8th Salon des Independants.

Signac topic are mainly landscape paintings in bright, brilliant color. His particular interest was the sailing ships and the world of ports.

1904 Signac traveled to Venice and took over from his sojourn over 200 informal small watercolor sketches. The studies he worked in the South of France Saint- Tropez carefully and created in the same year eleven oils.

In addition to his practical work as a painter Signac himself distinguished as a theorist. Programmatically, is his 1899 published essay, " D' Eugène Delacroix au neo- impressionisme " ( " From Eugène Delacroix to Neo - Impressionism ").

Signac was during his lifetime a recognized and respected artist. In 1911 he was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion of Honour ( Knight of the Legion of Honor ), 1926 as officier d' honneur de la légion ( Officer of the Legion of Honor ), and finally in 1933 as commandeur d' honneur de la légion ( Commander of the Legion of Honour ). Since 1915 he is Peintre Officiel de la Marine, an official marine painter of the French Navy in the rank of officer.

Works (examples)

  • Large pine tree in St. Tropez, 1892-1893 ( Hermitage, Saint Petersburg )
  • The Red Buoy (La bouée rouge ), 1895 ( Musée d' Orsay, Paris)
  • St. Tropez - La Ville et les Pins, 1892, 65 × 81 cm, private collection
  • View of the port of Marseille, 1905 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • Venice, The Pink Cloud, 1909 ( Albertina (Vienna) )
  • Antibes le Soir, 1914 ( Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg )
  • Lighthouse at Groix, 1926 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • His Bridge, 1912 Museum Folkwang

Exhibitions

In 1964, his works at the documenta III were shown in Kassel in the Department drawings.

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