Color And Light: The Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross

Color And Light: The Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross by Various


Authors
Various
ISBN
9783791357737
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
248
Dimensions
240 x 300mm

This beautifully illustrated book examines the artistic career of the French painter and draftsman Henri-Edmond Cross who was a key figure in the development of European modernism. Inspired by the work of Realist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Francois Bonvin, Henri-Edmond Cross's earliest paintings were compositions in dark, somber colours. Following his involvement with the avant-gardist circle around Georges Seurat, he gradually adopted the Neo-Impressionist technique and began to develop a unique visual vocabulary. After his move to the Mediterranean coast in 1891, Cross's palette became increasingly lighter, resulting in dazzlingly colourful landscapes, genre paintings, and compositions that are overlaid with mythological and allegorical allusions. This volume traces Cross's artistic trajectory through all stages of his prolific career and situates his masterful approach to colour and light within the broader context of the European avant-garde of his time. In addition, it examines the painter's anarchist sympathies and the political dimensions of his depictions of utopian sceneries. AUTHOR: Ortrud Westheider is director of the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany. 200 colour illustrations
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