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Article: Signac the Fauve: the Musee d'Orsay has organised perhaps the most comprehensive and wide-ranging exhibition of neo-impressionism ever. Samson Spanier sees the light.
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The pointillist and divisionist painters, or--to give them their historically accurate name coined in 1886 by the critic Felix Feneon--the neo-impressionists, are rarely given their full due when it comes to exhibitions. It is true that Seurat is usually credited with the first decisive break with impressionism proper, and that academics see Signac's treatise D'Eugene Delacroix au Neo-Impressionnisme (1899) as a call for an expressionistic use of colour that inspired the Fauves. There has been no comprehensive overview of neo-impressionism, however, since the Guggenheim's in 1968. Moreover, other exhibitions have often ignored the gap. 'Le Fauvisme ou l'Epreuve du Feu' at ...
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