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"Women at the Well, Opus 238." Paul Signac, 1892.

I've talked about Signac before. While I'm not a huge fan of Pointillism, and I consider Seurat overrated (there, I said it, I expect people to unfollow me now), but his works have a certain appeal.

Here we have two ladies at a well overlooking the Mediterranean. This scene is just DRENCHED with sunlight; in fact, the yellowness of the grass hints that there might be a bit of a drought going on. Signac would spend half of each year at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, where his paintings sought to depict an ideal society. This was originally to have been part of a grander, sweeping canvas....but he decided the two ladies at the well were enough.

This is also a great example of "artistic license" as a concept. Most of the elements here do exist...the lighthouse, the well, the distant mountains, the citadel on a hill....but they don't exist together like this. But he put them together to make an idealized view. Kind of like putting the Washington Monument next to the Empire State Building in a picture...

Makes me think of summer...

From the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

A painting that combines Neo-Impressionism with Pointillism. On a sun-bleached rise over the sea, two women (one in a hat and magenta skirt, the other hatless with brown blouse and olive skirt) stand by a well, facing each other and obviously in conversation. Magenta Skirt rests one hand on the well edge and with the other holds a water jug. Olive Skirt is holding the ropes that lower the bucket into the well. Behind them, on a winding path, another woman (hat, white blouse, pink skirt) walks away with a jug in each hand. The grass is a pale yellow-green, but some plants and trees are dark green. A hill rises to the right, with some buildings to be seen at the top. On the left, the sea extends out, with some sailboats, a lighthouse, and distant mountains to be seen.
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