Paul Signac
When Georges Seurat (Paul Signac's mentor and friend) died in 1892, Signac decided to move to the tiny Mediterranean town of St. Tropez. The artist was motivated to do so partly by his love of the sea and sailing but mainly by his weariness with the hectic life in Paris and by his desire to modify aspects of Neo-Impressionism. During the early 1890s, Signac began to find the effort of transcribing visual experience with the painstaking pointillist technique increasingly less satisfying. Place des Lices, St. Tropez comes from this important transitional period in Signac's art. This painting of majestic trees represents a shift in Signac's choice of motif; also, the artist surely found satisfaction in the strong arabesque lines of the trees, and he used their patterns of shadows and filtered light to animate the painting's foreground.
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P.S. If you're captivated by this masterpiece, you will definitely love A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Signac's mentor, Georges Seurat!
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