Divisionism (also called Chromoluminarism) was the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically.By requiring the viewer to combine the colors optically instead of physically mixing pigments divisionists believed they were achieving the maximum luminosity scientifically possible.
thumbnail
author
Vincent van Gogh, Jean Metzinger, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Robert Delaunay
museum
Van Gogh Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Kröller-Müller Museum, Art Institute of Chicago
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Divisionism"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
