1894
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Boats is a 1894 by Paul Signac, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows three ships on a flat, yellowish sea. The boats are dark and simple, with tall masts and sails. Below them, a thin strip of land has small, patchy colors—green and brown mixed in. The artist used tiny dots of color to build up the scene, almost like a mosaic. This was a way to make light and distance feel real. Next, check out Paul Signac to see how he played with color and light in other works.
Paul Victor Jules Signac ( seen-YAHK, French: ; 11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism.
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