The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904
Keri Yousif exhibition review of Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904 Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, no. 2 (Autumn 2014) Citation: Keri Yousif, exhibition review of “Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, no. 2 (Autumn 2014), http://www.19thc- artworldwide.org/autumn14/yousif-reviews-face-to-face-the-neo-impressionist-portrait. Published by: Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. Yousif: Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904 Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, no. 2 (Autumn 2014) Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis June 15–September 7, 2014 Previously at: ING Cultural Center, Brussels February 19–May 18, 2014 Catalogue: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886–1904. Jane Block and Ellen Wardwell Lee with contributions by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon and Nicole Tamburini. New Haven, CT and London: Indianapolis Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2014. 256 pp.; 105 color illus; 3 b&w illus; artist biographies; appendix on Neo-Impressionist oil portraits, 1886–1904; bibliography; index. $65. ISBN-13 978-0-300-19084-7 The term Neo-Impressionism invokes images of contrasting colors, gradations in light, and the signature pointillism of dappled brush strokes. As Ellen Wardwell Lee, the Wood-Pulliam Senior Curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), argues, the movement’s focus on “the creation and capture of brilliant color and natural light” has produced a Neo-Impressionist canon largely comprised of “landscapes, seascapes, and urban scenes” (IX).
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