The painters of the 1900s and 1910s did not stop at the Impressionists’ contributions to art. They sought new methods and means of expression to match their era, and thus gave rise to a myriad art movements.
Among them was Pointillism, represented here by Henri Martin’s Vue over Saint-Cirq-Lapopie. The Pointillists’ method of painting consisted of applying paint of simple, unmixed colors in small brushstrokes. The resulting spots, or points, were kept separate from each other and laid out in a set pattern, which would blend into a complex field of color when seen from a certain distance due to the optics of the human eye. Henri Martin himself used the term Divisionism to describe his manner of painting.