neo-impressionism

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Schad pointed him in the direction of Alfred Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, who created a diagram in the 1930s that traced the lineage of every genre of art from 1890 on — Synthetism, Neo-Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Abstract — back to Japanese prints.

From Los Angeles Times

Compare this with the immediately preceding avant-garde movements, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, which broke color into smaller and smaller units, and you can grasp the profundity of Matisse’s revolution.

From Washington Post

He discovered Georges Seurat, coined the term the term Neo-Impressionism to distinguish painters like Seurat and Paul Signac from their predecessors and helped introduce African sculpture to the French avant-garde.

From New York Times

He was the discoverer of Georges Seurat, and coined the term Neo-Impressionism for the art movement that Seurat spearheaded with Paul Signac and the erstwhile Impressionist Camille Pissarro.

From New York Times

The museum’s collection has a focus on modernism such as Neo-impressionism, pointillism, Expressionism and Cubism.

From Los Angeles Times