[Republicanprofessor]

Great comments about Pointilism. You beat me to it. Like Gauguin, the Pointilists like Seurat are also Post-Impressionists and have more solid form and more eternal, long lasting compositions. These people seem like they are going to be here forever (even the little girl hopping on one foot.) And it is MUCH more awesome to see its huge size in person.

I like the connection to engineers. I'll have to see if my engineer friends like it better than other, more loose forms of art.

[general_re]

I like the connection to engineers. I'll have to see if my engineer friends like it better than other, more loose forms of art.

Could be. Seurat, as I recall, was very much into what he referred to as his "method" - that is, painting was less of a spontaneous emotional expression for him than a process of composition via a set of rules designed to communicate with the viewer in a sort of "language". And he's often classed as a "Neoimpressionist" to distinguish him in this respect from Postimpressionists like Gauguin or van Gogh, for whom painting was very much an emotional expression. The fact that Seurat's works wind up being quite emotive in their own right is surely a testament to both his method and his ability. Often imitated as a pointillist, but certainly never duplicated, IMO.