Henri Edmond Cross - Church of Santa Maria degli Angely Near Assisi, a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
As a result of a journey to Italy, Henri Edmond Cross (Douai, May 20, 1856 - Saint Clair, May 16, 1910) produced a number of such scenes of Perugia and Assisi. Pointillism (the technique used to produce this work) is a method of painting in which the colour is applied in small dots of paint, the artist breaking complex tones up into pure colours which are then combined by the eye at a distance. Here, the chance nature of Impressionist compositions was replaced by a precisely enclosed construction, and Impressionist spontaneity by the scrupulously methodical application of identical brushstrokes to the canvas, creating the effect of a decorative coloured mosaic.
[Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92 cm]
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