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.
An exhibition celebrates Edwin Austin Abbey, a 19th-century American artist, showcasing his study for the monumental work The Hours created for the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
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