PAUL SIGNAC

Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863. Firstly he was studyiing architecture but then he started painting. He met Claude Monet and George Seurat in 1884 after that he abandoned the classic impressionist painting style and stroke into Pointillism.In 1886 Signac met Vincent van Gogh in Paris. In 1887 the two artists regularly went to Asnières-sur-Seine together, where they painted such subjects as river landscapes and cafés. Initially, Van Gogh chiefly admired Signac’s loose painting technique. After Seurat died in 1891, Paul Signac became the chief spokesman of the Neo-Impressionist movement, supported by the critic Félix Fénéon. He loved to use French coat and water in his paintings. He experimented various painting styles, been a leader to the Neo-impressionist art movement. and also he couraged new artists.


 The Port of Saint-Tropez, oil on canvas, 1901



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**Şenyapılı, Önder, Resimde İzlenimcilik Yılları ve İzlenimci Ressamlar,ODTÜ Yayıncılık,2011