Neo-Impressionism: What Was the Point?

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Painting by Georges Seurat showing a grassy cliff overlooking the sea at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, with a sailboat in the distance and a sky filled with clouds.

Neo-Impressionism: What Was the Point?: Media

You may know Impressionism and Post-Impressionism—but what is Neo-Impressionism, and how does it fit in with those other two?

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Painting by Georges Seurat showing a grassy cliff overlooking the sea at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, with a sailboat in the distance and a sky filled with clouds.

Georges Seurat: Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy

Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, oil on canvas by Georges Seurat, 1888;...

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman;1972.9.21)