Georges Seurat, Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy (Port-en-Bessin, les grues et la percée), 1888. Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 80.9 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman 1972.9.21. Photo: © Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

NEW YORK, NY.- From April 27 to August 6, 2007, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy, the first exhibition in the United States to focus on Italian Divisionism—a style so named for its painting technique, which employed the “division” of vibrant color through brushstrokes—and to examine its relationship to French Neo-Impressionism. The exhibition comprises approximately forty paintings drawn from major museums and private collections by the masters of Italian Divisionism, including Giovanni Segantini, Angelo Morbelli, and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, together with significant Neo-Impressionist paintings by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Camille Pissarro, among others. Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism situates the Italian Divisionists within an international context alongside the major proponents of Neo-Impressionism. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19842