"To think that the neoimpressionists are painters who cover canvases with little multicolored spots is a rather widespread mistake," wrote Paul Signac in his manifesto of their movement. "This mediocre dot method has nothing to do with the aesthetic of the painters we are defending here, nor with the technique of divisionism they use." Signac was referring to, among others, Georges Seurat, who in trying to systematize the optical discover-ies of the impressionists, had taken a scientifi c approach to painting, one based on color theory. His goal, he once said, was to make "modern people, in their essential traits, move about as if on friezes, and place them on canvases or-ganized by harmonies of color, by directions of the tones in harmony with the lines, and by the directions of the lines."
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