The twisted rods at the right are the drying racks of a stove. He even paints the paisley shawl in both shadow and bright light. Morren transforms this silent realm crowded with furnishings and keepsakes into an intricate, colorful pattern of carefully applied dots. In this canvas, Morren recasts the motif in the language of Neo-Impressionism. Sunday Afternoon The theme of a woman seated beside a window has a long tradition in Belgian and Dutch painting, most notably represented by the interiors of Jan Vermeer. They add a strangely energetic note to the motionless scene. The style is often described as Divisionism or Neo-Impressionism. Pointillism - the technique used to produce this work - is a method of painting in which the colour is applied in small dots of paint, the artist breaking complex tones up into pure colours which are then combined by the eye at a distance. As a result of a journey to Italy, Cross produced a number of such scenes of Perugia and Assisi. The Church of Santa Maria degli Angely Near Assisi', 1909, Artist: Henri Edmond Cross. PointillismВ is a technique ofВ paintingВ in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. The term 'Pointillism' was coined byВ art criticsВ in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists. Paul Victor Jules SignacВ (1863 вЂ“1935) was a FrenchВ Neo-ImpressionistВ painterВ who, working withВ Georges Seurat, helped develop theВ PointillistВ style, developing the technique in 1886, branching fromВ Impressionism.

This image shows Sailing Boats in St Tropez Harbor (also called Flagged Sailboats in Port) by Paul Signac.

Neo impressionism