Theo van Rysselberghe
Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe was a Belgian Neo-Impressionist painter. His first encounter with this new avant-garde idiom had come in 1886, when he traveled from Brussels to Paris—his first trip to the French capital, at the age of 23—for the eighth and final Impressionist group show. Van Rysselberghe himself began painting in a Divisionist manner in 1888 and soon became one of the movement’s foremost apostles. In the 1890s, he reached the climax of his Neo-impressionist technique.
Today we present one of his amazing paintings executed in this style; on a gently rippling plane of turquoise water, under brilliant Mediterranean sun, a fleet of fishing boats glides past a rocky outcrop that glows orange in the iridescent light. Van Rysselberghe painted this view during a two-month sailing trip in the south of France with Paul Signac, his close friend and the leader of the movement.
Have a calm day today! :)
P.S. If you love Pointillism, here are the most amazing pointillist landscapes!