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‘One painting ... imposed itself on the rest:* Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte” (now in the Art Institute of Chicago).’

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‘Instead of a haphazard, variable brushstroke, there was a fairly uniform dot of paint (hence, “Pointillism”). Instead of mixing colours on the palette, they were juxtaposed on the canvas: optical mixture gave much greater luminosity and vibration (hence, “Divisionism”).

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*[ – at the exhibition referred to in the last previous ts journal entry]

** – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 5:806]

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