Paul Signac
(Paul Victor Jules Signac) was born on 11 November 1863 and lived till 15 August
1935. He worked with Georges Seurat and developed Pointillism. He was a well-known
French Neo-Impressionist painter.
He started
his career as architect and later after seeing the exhibition of art works by Monet, he decided to take painting as career.
He met
Georges Seurat and Claude Monet in 1884. In 1886 he met Vincent Van Gogh in Paris
and together with him he painted river landscapes and cafes.
Signac
experimented with various media such as watercolors and oil paintings. Signac
inspired many Henri Matisse and also Andre Derain and played a great role in
evolution of Fauvism.
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