Helene Kröller-Müller was one of the first female art patrons of the twentieth century, assembling one of the most important collections of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the world, today gathered at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo in the Netherlands. It is thanks to this collection that this exhibition was born, focusing on the figure of Georges Seurat and Post-Impressionist painting today called “Pointillism”. That of Seurat and artists such as Paul Signac, Anna Boch, Jan Toorop and Henri-Edmond Cross was a great revolution in painting. In their artworks, images are reconstructed through the skillful use of small dots of pure color. A technique that in some ways anticipated abstract art and where colors blend to create nuanced tones and an illusion of light. A new style of representing reality that - simplifying form and playing with color in a completely new way - at the same time captured late nineteenth-century European society through bright landscapes, portraits and interior scenes, also depicting the struggles faced by the working class, in reaction to the industrial age.
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