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Bathing at Asnières is a painting by Georges Seurat (1859-1891) painted in 1884 at Asnières-sur-Seine, the first of his seven large paintings. Rejected at the March 1884 Salon, it was exhibited from 15 May at the Salon du groupe des artistes indépendant, rue des Tuileries, and from the following 1 December at the 1st Salon des indépendants. It was this painting that revealed Seurat's art to the critic Félix Fénéon and marked the beginning of his commitment to the defence of the new pictorial movement that he called neo-impressionism in 1886. Félix Fénéon acquired Une baignade after Seurat's death from his heirs. He kept the painting for a long time, and when he had to sell it again, it was bought by the National Gallery. Although the work still clearly shows Impressionist influence through its theme (a waterside scene), its light colours and the division of the brushstrokes, it is already moving away from Impressionism through the classical poses and smooth contours of the bathers, the almost geometric rigour of its composition, which, following the critic Paul Alexis, has often been compared to Doux pays by Puvis de Chavannes (exhibited at the Salon of 1882), and the silent atmosphere that emanates from it. Here Seurat demonstrates his desire to give a modern leisure scene a classical solemnity and dignity. The use of the golden ratio is present in this painting, both in the size of the canvas itself and in the size of some of its main [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the pointillism style.

 

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