Radical Harmony: Neo-Impressionists

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Radical Harmony: Neo-Impressionists

1 October 2025 to 8 February 2026

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The National Gallery presents the world's most significant Neo-Impressionist collection — assembled by patron Helene Kröller-Müller — exploring how Seurat, Signac, Cross and others used pointillist colour theory to capture luminous 19th-century landscapes while advocating for radical political change.

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Connect the dots as you experience the world's most significant collection of Neo-Impressionist art. When critics first saw Georges Seurat’s new style of painting, they thought it might bring about the death of painting itself. But what was it about artists like Paul Signac, Anna Boch, Jan Toorop and Henri-Edmond Cross, that ruffled so many feathers? Neo-Impressionists painted in small dots of pure colour. Viewed from a distance,...

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Critic Review

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones

The National Gallery struggles to tell a different story

"Yet in a coarse-grained approach to this fine-grained art style, the National Gallery struggles to tell a different story. The neo-impressionists didn’t just paint dots, they dreamed of revolution. And by the way we shouldn’t call them by the evocative nickname “pointillist” because they didn’t like it."

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Saturday10am–6pm

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