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Maximilien Luce’s Port of London, Night: The Science of Pointillism, Nature, and Industry

Presenter Information

Meredith Conger

Faculty Mentor

Elissa Auerbach

Keywords

Elissa Auerbach

Abstract

Maximilien Luce’s oil painting, Port of London, Night, 1894, is a nocturnal landscape depicting a dockyard with industrial buildings in the background. Luce painted Port of London, Night in the technique of pointillism which was developed during the Neo-Impressionism art movement in the late nineteenth century. The Port of London, Night painting is built up by small dots of pure color while nature and industry are also constructed from smaller elements of mathematical formulas and scientific principles; Luce illustrates this connection between all three in this work. Scholars have analyzed the comparison of nature and industry and how both are fighting to dominate the other in paintings but missed the underlying similarities that nature and industry share. In this paper, I will argue how Luce’s use of pointillism to create a landscape involving industrial and natural elements connects the three subjects on a scientific level.

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Documenting and Deconstructing Conflict and Congruence through Art, Literature, and Theatre

Start Date

4-4-2014 9:00 AM

End Date

4-4-2014 10:00 AM

Location

HSB 304

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Maximilien Luce’s Port of London, Night: The Science of Pointillism, Nature, and Industry

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Maximilien Luce’s oil painting, Port of London, Night, 1894, is a nocturnal landscape depicting a dockyard with industrial buildings in the background. Luce painted Port of London, Night in the technique of pointillism which was developed during the Neo-Impressionism art movement in the late nineteenth century. The Port of London, Night painting is built up by small dots of pure color while nature and industry are also constructed from smaller elements of mathematical formulas and scientific principles; Luce illustrates this connection between all three in this work. Scholars have analyzed the comparison of nature and industry and how both are fighting to dominate the other in paintings but missed the underlying similarities that nature and industry share. In this paper, I will argue how Luce’s use of pointillism to create a landscape involving industrial and natural elements connects the three subjects on a scientific level.