Paul Signac

Paul Signac (Paris, November 11th 1863 - id., August 15th 1935) is a painter French Paysagiste which gave rise to the Pointillisme with the painter Seurat. It also developed the technique Divisionnisme.

Biography

Signac was wire of tradesmen in Paris but its great-grandfather, naval officer to the revolution, died in captivity on bridge English. Single child, it is very spoiled by his mother and his grandfather.

He begins painting in 1882 in Montmartre, and is formed only under the influence of the impressionists.

It is by seeing a reproduction of Monet, that it is seriously put to be interested in painting. He will write besides in Monet in his youth, with an aim of obtaining some councils of its share.

In 1880, it stops its studies little before obtaining its baccalaureat. It adheres then to a bunch, " The herrings saurs epileptics baudelairiens and anti-philistin" , resolutely nonconformist.

He enters then the free workshop of a painter to Montmartre, Emile Bin.

At its beginning, Signac paints especially sights of Asnières, where its family resides and where it given a boat. Signac has two passions, painting and navigation. It also paints sights of Montmartre and fact of the studies of women. Its painting is very influenced by Monet, it paints by distinct keys, very coloured.

In 1884, Signac exposes its first work to the " Living room of the independent artists " , where it meets Georges Seurat, with which it will bind friendship.

June 30th, 1884 is founded the Company of the independent artists. To spring 1886 are exposed to New York works of Signac and Seurat.

Signac works with Seurat, with Pissarro, with which it will form the group of the " impressionists known as scientifiques". Signac painted by small keys, dotted lines, juxtaposition of the pure colors. The mixture is not done on the pallet but in the eye of the regardor.

While painting on the quays of the Seine, towards Asnières, it meets Van Gogh. From August in October 1887, Signac settles in midday. It buys a new boat and spends the summer 1888 on the northern coast of the Brittany, then the following year on the Mediterranean coast where it visits Cassis and returns visit to Van Gogh who is interned with Arles.

March 29th, 1891, Seurat dies in thirty and one years. Signac is under the shock, it thus leaves Paris to go to sail on the Breton coasts.

It leaves Brittany for Saint-Tropez in 1892 when it settles part of the year, with his wife and her mother of which it will make the portrait. It also paints many landscapes.

Signac is characterized by the parallelism which it makes between the music and painting going until naming its fabrics “the re-entry of the trawlers… Larghetto, etc”. Its tables were numbered in Opus!

In the year 1893, Delacroix publishes its newspaper. That pushes Signac to be put at the writing. Since 1896, it is then put to write a study entitled Of Eugene Delacroix to the neo-impressionism which appears in 1899.

In 1908, he becomes president of the independent ones, he devotes much time and energy to this function. Signac will turn over to Brittany between 1923 and 1929 during its period watercolours.

Works

Andelys (1886)
Woman reading (1887), Museum of Orsay, Paris: oil on wood
Château of Comblat (1887), Musée of Liege, Belgium: HST (cf http://pluvinel.site.voila.fr)
the red buoy (1895) Museum of Orsay, Paris: Dimensions: 81 cm X 65 cm Landscape of Saint-Tropez.
the storm, (1895) Museum of Annonciade, Saint-Tropez: Landscape of Saint-Tropez
the headlight of Antibes, (1909) Museum of Beautiful arts, Nantes: Oil on fabric
the castle of the Popes in Avignon, (1900) Museum of Orsay, Paris: Dimensions: 73,5 cm X 92,5 cm.
the combatant (1893) 12,3cm X 20,3 cm.
the painted lunch of 1885 to 1886 111.8cmx1886 with oil

See too

List of French painters

External bonds

Paul Signac: neo-impressionist French painter (rou.)
Paul Signac in Olga' S Gallery

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