Neo-Impressionism is a term applied to an avant-garde art movement that flourished principally in France from 1886 to 1906.
In the words of the artist Paul Signac, Neo-Impressionism's greatest propagandist, "the separated elements will be reconstituted into brilliantly colored lights." The separation of color through individual strokes of pigment came to be known as Divisionism, while the application of precise dots of paint came to be called Pointillism.
The art critic Félix Fénéon first used the term "Neo-Impressionism" to describe the paintings of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Camille Pissarro, and his son Lucien Pissarro, at the eighth and last Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886.
Using newly discovered optical and color theories, Seurat rendered his subject by placing tiny, precise brush strokes of different colors close to one another so that they blend at a distance.
Art critics subsequently named this technique Divisionism, or Pointillism.
The artist visited La Grande Jatte many times, making drawings and more than 30 oil sketches to prepare for the final work.
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