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The pointillist and the past: three English views of Seurat

2010; Burlington Magazine Publications; Volume: 152; Issue: 1293 Linguagem: Inglês

2044-9925

Nancy Ireson,

Art History and Market Analysis

The writer examines opinions offered over the course of the 20th century by three British critics on the work of Georges Seurat. She discusses the evolution of the approach taken to Seurat by Roger Fry, who, despite the fact that Seurat's work was not then to his taste, included the artist's work in “Manet and the Post-Impressionists,” an exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London in 1910–11; by Kenneth Clark, who, as director of the National Gallery, was among the lenders to the next significant exhibition of Seurat's work in England, “Seurat and his Contemporaries” at Wildenstein in London, in 1937; and by Antony Blunt, who was responsible in some ways for drawing attention to the need to go beyond the formalist reading of Seurat in the 1960s.