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Paul Signac.(painting exhibition)(Brief Article)
Impressionism took many forms in France. The original nucleus of artists included Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille. Although they had shown works together as early as 1863, they held their first official exhibition in 1874. The group soon grew larger and membership was fluid. Meetings even included critics as well as painters. There followed what the critic Roger Fry called in 1910 post-impressionism, which included artists such as Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. This was closely followed by neo-impressionism, of which the original standard-bearer was Georges Seurat. He, in turn, had close links to Paul Signac, whom he met in 1884 and who became the theorist and propagandist for the movement.
Signac was born in 1863 in Paris, and, after studying architecture, he switched to painting. He enrolled at the Atelier libre de Bin in 1883 and exhibited two works at the 1884 exhibition in which Seurat's landmark Une Baignade, Asnieres (Bathers at Asnieres) hung.
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