Radical Harmony at the National Gallery: ‘you can have just too many dots’

Melanie McDonough | Yahoo news | 12th September 2025

Pointillists like Seurat were, it seems, “narrowly doctrinaire” with their ever-so-carefully painted dots and colour choices. But Paris at that time was a hotbed of artistic experimentation, and colour theory didn’t exactly sound exciting. Signac emerged as an apostle of Seurat but his dots were coarser. Sometimes he even used lines! Despite the affinity of dotting with landscapes, this painting movement faded.  Seurat’s La Grand Jatte “was the great painting of the movement, but it still seems like a one-trick pony”.