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"Still Life with a Book and Oranges," Paul Signac, 1883.

Signac (1863-1935) was a post-Impressionist who developed the style of Pointillism with Seurat. He started off as an architecture student but when he saw a Monet exhibition in 1880, he abandoned it for art. This is one of his earlier works...amazing to think he was only twenty!

I'm usually not much for Pointillism, but I do appreciate his style here, which is more based on dashes than dots. This was a period when he was experimenting heavily with technique and material; I'm told artists like to use still lifes as a medium for experimentation.

SIgnac had a long and successful career as an artist, and was famous for his depictions of France's Mediterranean coast. An avowed anarchist, he had dreams of forming an anarchist utopia in the south of France; he would probably be appalled at what is there now. He also wrote a number of books on art history, theory, and technique, which are still influential today.

From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

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