Paul Signac

Paul Signac was one of the pioneers of pointillism - a style of strategically painting or drawing hundreds of small dots onto a canvas. He had abandoned the short brushwork style that was typical for Impressionist painters, and instead created works covered in pure-colored dots. The intention of pointillism was for the dots to blend, not on the canvas, but through the eye’s of the viewer. Most of his paintings were of the French coast - Signac spent a large amount of his time sailing around the European coast, painting his favorite landscapes.