Led by the example of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Neo-Impressionists who renounced the spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured and a systematic painting technique known as pointillism, based on science and the study of optics.
Neo-Impressionism is a term applied to an avant-garde art movement that flourished primarily in France from 1886 to 1906. Led by the example of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Neo-Impressionists who renounced the spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured and a systematic painting technique known as pointillism, based on science and the study of optics.