On these boxes, and as part of the series Pintar por pintar, Negrón decided to work a group of abstract paintings that evoke
french Pointillism of the late nineteenth century.
Mickalene Thomas started out as an abstract painter, inspired by Australian Aboriginal art and late - nineteenth - century
French Pointillism.
Not exact matches
Through her studies, Thomas was introduced to
French impressionism and
pointillism and eventually drew inspiration from artists like Matisse, Édouard Manet and Romare Bearden.
Known as Faux Fauvism, it's inspired by Matisse and celebrates elements of Fauvism — that is, early 20th - century
French paintings, marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colours — as well as Cubism,
Pointillism and street art.
One of several influential art critics - like Louis Leroy (1812 - 1885), Louis Vauxcelles (1870 - 1943) and Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)- who found themselves in the middle of revolutionary developments in
French painting at the end of the 19th century, the Parisian writer and anarchist Felix Feneon achieved lasting fame in modern art, at the age of 27, when he invented the term Neo-Impressionism to describe the
Pointillism of George Seurat (1859 - 91) and others.