What Seurat was working toward was a system that ... evoking catcalls from the critics and attracting younger painters. Van Gogh tried pointillism but found it too exacting; Gauguin, too, gave ...

The Siesta is Van Gogh’s interpretation of an 1866 canvas ... A foundational figure of the post-impressionists was Georges Seurat. The painter was one of the first to want to venture beyond ...

Documentary series in which Waldemar Januszczak sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat.