Antibes, The Pink Cloud MFAB(2)
Week 8 Sailing Vessels (1136 – 1140) 11/01 – 11/06/2020 ID 1136
Paul Signac French 1863-1935
Antibes, The Pink Cloud, 1916
Oil on canvas
Signac remained committed to Divisionism throughout his career, but the way he applied paint varied greatly. Unlike the brushy dashes and methodical dots of his earlier paintings, on view behind you, here, Signac employs a regularized, rectangular stroke that takes on the quality of a dazzling mosaic. In a 1916 letter to a critic, Signac annotated a sketch of this “portrait of a cloud” to reveal the cloud’s “personalities.” He referred to the vaporous form at upper left as Loïe Fuller—an American dancer who had taken Paris by storm in the 1890s—and pointed out “some Michelangelesque figures” in the dark underside of the cloud at right. The German gunboats in the lower right corner were called “the black squadron.”
Isabelle and Scott Black Collection
From the Placard: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac
www.artnet.com/artists/paul-signac/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuQXVbssAI
Antibes, The Pink Cloud MFAB(2)
Week 8 Sailing Vessels (1136 – 1140) 11/01 – 11/06/2020 ID 1136
Paul Signac French 1863-1935
Antibes, The Pink Cloud, 1916
Oil on canvas
Signac remained committed to Divisionism throughout his career, but the way he applied paint varied greatly. Unlike the brushy dashes and methodical dots of his earlier paintings, on view behind you, here, Signac employs a regularized, rectangular stroke that takes on the quality of a dazzling mosaic. In a 1916 letter to a critic, Signac annotated a sketch of this “portrait of a cloud” to reveal the cloud’s “personalities.” He referred to the vaporous form at upper left as Loïe Fuller—an American dancer who had taken Paris by storm in the 1890s—and pointed out “some Michelangelesque figures” in the dark underside of the cloud at right. The German gunboats in the lower right corner were called “the black squadron.”
Isabelle and Scott Black Collection
From the Placard: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac
www.artnet.com/artists/paul-signac/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuQXVbssAI