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Paul Victor Jules Signac, Paul Signac, one of the most admired born neo-impressionist French painter and co-creator of "dots" or "divisions", was a wealthy bourgeois family in Paris November 11, 1863. Paul was an artist revolutionary, who also loved the sea and sailing. His first boat was a boat that he named Manet Zola Wagner. The name suggested by his youthful enthusiasm for the avant-l'arte avant-garde and unconventional, whileremains undecided about his profession.

At the age of eighteen, in pursuit of a course in architecture, Paul Signac eyes in the paintings of Claude Monet, in the offices of La Vie released in June 1880. This led to his interest in painting. Paul has never taken a course of formal training in art. Regardless of the knowledge he had was a result of self-study of the works of Manet, Monet, Degas and Caillebotte. Since 1882 the artist produced his first series of vibrantly coloredStudies and human figures, with his companion, Bertha Robles, like his role model. Early work of Paul to characterize a distinct predilection for the forehead, geometric arrangements and a preference for the colors.

Signac met Monet and Georges Seurat in 1884. Seurat's working methods and the theory of color planes Paul, and he immediately to a follower of Seurat. Under the influence of Seurat, Signac, led by short brushstrokes of impressionism to experiment"Pointillism, a technique in which tiny dots of pure colors are cleverly put together, with the intention of creating a color vision in the eyes of a spectator rather than on canvas." Two Milliners "(1885) was the first artist "Neo-Impressionism" or "occasional" piece of work. Seurat began his legendary great painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", revised in 1884, but Paul on it in 1885 to accept the "Technology Division" to SeuratRecommendation.

Signac participated in the first Salon des Artistes Indépendants in 1884 and continue to pay annually. He was the first non-employees of the Belgian avant-garde Brussels Societe des XX. Same year he became one years later, and Armand Guillaumin Camille Pissarro met. The year 1885 was located Signed Signac expo years with her paintings in a major exhibition, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, but also the first catalog Robaut Alfred. The artist himself wasTogether with Seurat and Van Gogh in Paris in 1887, at Le Théatre Libre.

In 1890, Paul "journalist friend, Felix Feneon quoted an article," Les hommes d'aujourd'hui ", written in those of the artist's work. In 1899, Signac," by Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism, "which speaks of different artistic ideas, theories, methods and movements that he witnessed and was a member. aided by the death of Seurat in 1891 to Signac, with supply andClassification of his works. The artist saw himself as the new head of the "neo-impressionism. He organized" Neo-Impressionism "group show at the Memorial Van Gogh and Seurat, in 1891 and 1892 respectively. Berther Robles married November 7, 1892

In 1900 Signac moved away from "dots", as he has never been limited to a single medium. He experimented with oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, lithographs and drawings in pen and ink. Signac was the chairman of the annualSalon des Indépendants from 1908 until his death. It 'was an inspiration in particular, Henri Matisse and André Derian, and many other amateur artists, when asked the controversial work of the Fauves and the exhibition "Cubism makes use development of Fauvism. Paul began a life in connection with Jeanne-Selmersheim Desgrange in September 1913. The couple was blessed with a daughter in October 1913.

With his life, the artist createdSeveral European watercolors of seascapes, landscapes, cities, and French. Signac famous masterpieces are "The Bonaventure Pine in Saint-Tropez" (1893), "Port St. Tropez" (1899), "Views of the port of Marseille" (1905), and