Or/l, "Ribera del Yonne", Neo -impressionism, Jean Vollet, 1982 - France
Spectacular neo -impressionist work, using the pointillist or divisionist technique, conducted by Jean Vollet, author of French origin, in which a peaceful scene of the Yonne river riverbank is represented, tributary of the SENA. Signed and dated in the rear, where it is also indicated that the work was presented in an exhibition that took place in New York, in 1984, dedicated to pointillism.
Puntillismo or divisionism is part of the "neo-impressionism", is the technique used by said artistic movement, which arises at the end of the 19th century (1880-1905), during the first avant-garde, led by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
In turn, neo -impressionism is one of the currents of post -impressionism. The only thing that different movements or post -impressionist currents have is the assimilation by the artists of the previous trend, but that they assimilate does not mean that they imitate it. There were those who followed this path and those who rejected it completely. To some extent, post -impressionism rejects the limitations of impressionism, providing a somewhat more subjective vision, with greater formal freedom and a more expressive use of color.
Impressionism and neo -impressionism have in common a neutral look of reality, and within neutrality they look at the most modern themes, a world of bourgeois, urban, inconsequential leisure. The works show contemporary reality, avoiding resorting to great issues such as mythology, literature or religion.
The most significant is the technique. Puntillismo or divisionism is the favorite technique of neo -impressionism. It also part of the image of nature, such as impressionism, but follows physical laws. The experiments had tried that the mixture of colors dirty, and that the only way to avoid it was the optical mixture. The artists choose, therefore, to assign the mixture of colors to the retina and mind. For this, they use a tiny brushstroke, very short and precise, in the form of small points, which allows a certain distance to mix visually. What is achieved this is a much more pure and saturated color.
This is where the theory of complementary colors also comes into play, which states that when two complementary ones are mixed produce a color that tends to gray or brown (the mixture of colors dirty), and this is precisely what is tried to avoid . However, when two complementary ones are placed together, the contrast between them makes them look brighter, more pure, more saturated. In Puntillismo, what we understand as lights and shadows are really points of different colors. In fact, black is only used as a local color, not for shadows. Shadows are colored.
The only mixture capable of producing the desired effect is the optical mixture. At a certain distance these points are mixed optically and the result produces an intensity of colors much greater than any mixture of pigments in the palette.
All this makes them very complex and elaborate works, whose execution requires a lot of time. It is no longer fast paintings, as they intended to be the impressionists. The technique itself also causes compositions to tend to statism.
About the Author
Jean Vollet (1935-2015) was born in Montayral, France. He studied art at the School of Graphic Arts of Bordeaux and graduated in Lithography. In 1962 he decided to settle in Paris, where he began to devote himself completely to painting, and where he began to expose in the Hall of Independents. Since then, his works have been exposed in New York, Tokyo, Beverly Hills, Cannes ... Seurat's influence, combined with Renoir and Pissaro, is visible in Vollet's paintings, and their balance and serenity, are typically French.
Dimensions: 73 x 92 x 5 cm. / 54 x 72 cm.
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