Although their subjects suggest carefree pleasure, there are undertones of social criticism in some Neo-Impressionist paintings.
Seurat
The Neo-Impressionist desire to conform art-making to universal laws of perception, color, and expression echoes throughout Modernism.
Introduction to Neo-Impressionism, Part I
Seurat sought to bring science to the methods of Impressionism with new, methodical approaches to color.
Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte ...
Seurat’s informal bathers are members of the working class—not the timeless bathers of history paintings.
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