Pointillism and Divisionism: the art that reveals itself one dot at a time
Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, in France and Italy two closely related movements emerged that revolutionized the way reality was seen and represented: Pointillism and Divisionism.
These movements start from the same intuition: to break images down into points or strokes of pure color, without mixing them on the palette, but allowing the human eye to blend them at a distance, creating a vibrant, luminous and surprisingly realistic visual effect.
Pointillism took shape in Paris thanks to Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, who applied a true scientific research on color and visual perception to painting.
In Italy, the movement developed in an autonomous form, called Divisionism, and found in the great Giovanni Segantini one of its most profound interpreters, capable of transforming landscapes and scenes of everyday life into images filled with light and poetry.
