Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music by Cornelia Homburg | Phillips Collection Art Book (2005 Hardcover) - Perfect for Art History Studies, Museum Enthusiasts & Impressionism Collectors
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This stunning catalogue explores the creative exchange between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Symbolism, with its emphasis on subjectivity, dream worlds, and spirituality, has often been considered at odds with Neo-Impressionism’s approach to portraying color and light. This book repositions the relationship between these movements and looks at how Neo-Impressionist artists such as Maximilien Luce, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Henry van de Velde created evocative landscape and figural scenes by depicting emptiness, contemplative moods, Arcadia, and other themes. Beautifully illustrated with 130 color images, this book reveals the vibrancy and depth of the Neo-Impressionist movement in Paris and Brussels in the late 19th century.
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This book was published in 2014 to accompany the exhibition of 75 paintings & drawings on loan to The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Sept. 27, 2014 - Jan. 11, 2015. According to Cornelia Homburg, the guest curator, "This exhibition & catalogue investigate how, during the late 1880s & the first half of the 1890s, these artists embraced the ideas discussed with & advocated by their Symbolist friends & colleagues: In what way do the pictures by these artists express a mood, a state of longing or melancholy?...How did they achieve this without ever letting go of a sound connection with the natural world?"The essays are 1. "Dreams of Reality" by Cornelia Homburg, 2. "The Neo-Impressionist: Color, Facture, Fiction" by Paul Smith, 3. "Almost Nothing" by Christopher Riopelle, 4. "Stylization & Synthesis in Neo-Impressionism" by Noelle C. Paulson, 5. "Une Peinture Suggestive" by Cornelia Homburg, 6. "Neo-Impressionist Arcadia" by Simon Kelly, 7. "Harmonious Paths: Neo-Impressionist Landscapes" by Noelle C. Paulson, and 8. "Neo-Impressionism & Symbolism: A Reference Guide to Issues & Figures" by Laura D. Corey.I started with #8, a refresher course on these artists & their interconnections. I have always admired Georges Seurat, but I became a fan of the other Neo-Impressionists while reading this book.Each work is reproduced in color. There is a Checklist of exhibited works, pp. 177-180. Artists included are Charles Angrand (4 works), Henri-Edmond Cross (8), Albert Dubois-Pillet (3), Alfred William Finch (5), Louis Hayet (4), Georges Lemmen (3), Maximilien Luce (6), Camille Pissarro (5), Lucien Pissarro (1), Theo van Rysselberghe (7), Georges Seurat (10), Paul Signac (12), Jan Toorop (1), and Henry van de Velde (6).
