... art movement after impressionism. Although, sadly being a relatively short lived movement, its members helped found the 'Societie des Artistes Independants', in 1884.The allure of their new technique was centred around its claim to being scientific. Their fundamental thesis professed that only the systematic application of natural laws could capture the illusion of coloured light. Their methods of advancing or challenging Impressionism was to apply paint in regular small strokes, giving their pictures a look of rational order contrasting the instinctive and spontaneous appearance of Impressionist art. By 1889, Neo- Impressionism had become the dominant new art form of the continent, and a major inspiration to artists such as Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh who sought to experiment with alternative modes of Impressionism themselves. Seurat stands alone in manifesting a range of development that has since prompted critics and historians to assign him as an artist of pivotal importance in the evolution ...

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