Photos

I call this photo “Tribute to Signac,” because he was probably the first to expose this view of Cap Canaille: Cap Canaille, Cassis, Opus 200, 1889. The painting resides in London at the National Gallery.

Paul Signac practiced “Pointillism.”

Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is an offshoot of Impressionism, and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" was first used with respect to the work of Georges Seurat, and he is the artist most closely associated with the movement.

You could make an analogy between the dots of Pointillism and the pixels of digital photos. In Time magazine, I read the following: “Both Signac and Seurat strove to give a noble, architectural permanence to fleeting effects by analyzing shape and light in terms of dots of colors. They wanted rigor and system, not Impressionist spontaneity.” Is this not the photography placed on TE?

I took this photo from the hotel Les Roches Blanches in Cassis. Although Cap Canaille hasn’t changed, the foreground in Signac’s painting is very much different from the landscape that now exists at that location- hotels!

Cap Canaille is the highest cliff in Europe.

Scanned APS photo