10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUMINARISM»
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Art of the 20th Century
Seurat himself would have preferred to have his and his friends' style known as "
Chromo-Luminarism," or painting in color and light. The terms Pointillism (
painting in dots of color set next to one another) or Divisionism (painting in
separated ...
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Art Isn't Easy: The Achievement of Stephen Sondheim
Seurat called his work chromo-luminarism, so George's work is linked to the
artistic style and direction of his great-grandfather's. The two artists have been
drawn to explore the same phenomena, color and light. To bridge the hundred-
year ...
Joanne Lesley Gordon, 1990
He called it 'chromo-luminarism', but it is better known as 'Divisionism' (or '
Pointillism'). The Bathers is painted evenly all over with short brushstrokes
uniformly separated and not directional - in later works these became dots like
the tesserae ...
Hugh Honour, John Fleming, 2005
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Color Theory and the Use of Complementary Color Effects in ...
Introduction In this paper I will explore the connection between Delacroix's
handling of color and the Neo-Impressionist theory of chromo-luminarism.
Chromo-luminarism postulates that by the juxtaposition of two colors, a third color
results that ...
Georges Seurat was above all partial to the term 'chromo-luminarism' because
pure colour, based on the law of contrast, was supposed to shine on the canvas.
The exhibition of La Grande Jatte at the exhibition of Impressionists was a huge ...
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays
Divisionism (or Chromo-luminarism, Pointillism), especially as in the French Neo-
lmpressionists Georges Seurat (1859-91) and Paul Signac (1863-1935). Yeats
read Count Leo Tolstoi's novel Anna Karenina (1875-77) in c. 1890 (Au 193), and
...
William Butler Yeats, 1994
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Configurations of Culture Growth
... Lowie, R. H., 835 n. 13 Loyang, 186 n. 28 Lucania, 328 Ludovisi Throne, 249
Lully, 644 Luminarism, 381 Luminosity in painting, 781 Luther, 155, 293, 371,
637, 714, 734 Luxemburgers, 730 Luzern, 719 Lydia, 691 Lyell, 713 Lysippus,
325, ...
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European Drawings 3: Catalogue of the Collections
In 1886 the critic Felix Feneon coined the term poin- tillism to describe Seurat s
personal method of color divisionism (which he himself called chromo-
luminarism), in which a multitude of small touches of unmixed color are placed
side by side ...
Nicholas Turner, Lee Hendrix, Carol Plazzotta, 1998
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Carl Gutherz: Poetic Vision and Academic Ideals
... whose opinion on the new school of painters was well-known: "This so- called
novelty crops up, year after year, under such pretentious and inappropriate
names as naturalism, impressionism, luminarism, intentionalism, and even
tachisme ...
Marilyn Masler, Marina Pacini, 2009
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The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the ...
The French pointillist painter Georges Seurat sought directly to apply Maxwell's
and Helmholtz's physics of color in his paintings of the 1880s and early 1890s
with his scheme of "chromo-luminarism," and several decades later the Spanish ...
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