Portrait of Félix Fénéon Traditional Cache
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In this painting Signac portrays his friend Félix Fénéon, an influential French critic. Rather than literally depicting his appearance, Signac suggests his character, using line, color, pattern, and pose to evoke Fénéon's theatrical personality and creative energy. Carrying a top hat, gloves, and a cane, Fénéon resembles a fin-de-siècle dandy. He strides across a stage to offer a flower to an unseen figure against a lively kaleidoscopic backdrop of swirling colors, which echoes the rhythmic, linear designs of Art Nouveau.
Signac based this pinwheel design on a Japanese print that was probably a design for a kimono but substituted his own colors and patterns, such as the stars in the lower right corner. This may be a reference to Fénéon's interest in the United States; the critic apparently cultivated a resemblance to Uncle Sam, complete with top hat and goatee.
Signac called his painting, Portrait of Félix Fénéon in 1890, Opus 217: Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints. The title refers to the combination of sounds, lines, and colors that symbolist artists drew upon to convey the inner world of their subjects.
In this portrait Signac captures the dynamic movement implied in his title by using a technique called pointillism. This style was based on scientific theories of color and perception that called for dabbing the canvas with tiny dots of pure pigment. Seen from a distance, the painting's broken strokes blend together into luminous hues, and the shapes and colors seem to vibrate with energy.
Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors. Aside from color "mixing" phenomena, there is the simpler graphic phenomena of depicted imagery emerging from disparate points. Historically, Pointillism has been a figurative mode of executing a painting, as opposed to an abstract modality of expression.
The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the more common methods of blending pigments on a palette or using the many commercially available premixed colors. Pointillism is analogous to the four-color CMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses, Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Black (called "CMYK"). Televisions, computer monitors use a pointillist technique to represent images but with Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.
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