Henri-Edmond Cross
This poetic depiction of a star-streaked sky combines the long-broken brushstrokes of Cross's late works with a murky landscape of pen and ink, reminiscent in its impressionistic forms of Japanese painting.
Beautiful, isn't it? Henri-Edmond Cross was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism; he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists. His work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism. Cross's paintings of the early- to mid-1890s are characteristically Pointillist, with closely and regularly positioned tiny dots of color. Beginning around 1895, he gradually shifted his technique, using instead broad, blocky brushstrokes and leaving small areas of exposed bare canvas between the strokes. The resulting surfaces resembled mosaics, and the paintings may be seen as precursors to Fauvism and Cubism.
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P.S. Keep on stargazing with these ten depictions of the nocturnal sky!