'Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism' is one of the first exhibitions to situate the Italian Divisionists within an international context alongside the major proponents of Neo-Impressionism. It features approximately forty paintings comprising of works by the masters of Italian Divisionism, such as Giovanni Segantini, Angelo Morbelli and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, together with significant Neo-Impressionists paintings by, among others, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Camille Pissarro. Italian Divisionism, like Neo-Impressionism, is a late nineteenth-century painting style premised on color theory and optics, in which dots or dashes of often complementary colors are juxtaposed to effect shimmering, luminous works.
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