After the Impressionists Talk 4: Seurat

Speaker
Juliet Heslewood, art historian and author
Event date
Event time
11:00 - 12:00
Venue
Ashmolean Museum (in-person and online)
Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2PH
Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
£8
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

Onsite at the Ashmolean and online via Zoom.

This is the fourth in our series of talks on Post-Impressionists as Change Makers.

The first Impressionist exhibition was in 1874 and caused disruption in the Parisian art world. By the end of the century artists had explored its innovations, liberating them from the conventions of the past. Their dramatic changes, achieved out of the movement, would have wide-spread repercussions, establishing Paris as the centre of the modern European stage.

In this talk, Juliet discusses how Georges Seurat chose to reduce the swift, visible brushstroke to a tiny dot that may have been entirely unspontaneous, but encouraged Impressionists such as Pissarro to radically change their style.

Seurat died young, but through his contemporaries Signac and Van Gogh, 'Pointillism' survived.