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Fair Winners, Tara Thompson
Fair Winners, Tara Thompson
Tara Thompson
La Divisione Fra I Divisionisti, Meijing He
La Divisione Fra I Divisionisti, Meijing He
Senior Theses and Projects
My thesis explores the philosophical and ideological divergence among the artists of the Italian Divisionism. Divisionism is a distinctive artistic phenomenon that had a short lifespan of twenty years from 1890 to 1910. Like the French Pointilism, it absorbed the influence of contemporary scientific theories on optical perception in relation to colors. Instead of blending colors in a traditional way, the artists of this style juxtaposed individual, broken strokes in primary colors to achieve the effect of maximum luminosity. Unlike the French neo-impressionists, however, their subject matter featured a strong involvement in social and political issues, idealized depiction of nature, …