| In the Time of Harmony | |
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| Year | 1893–95 |
| Dimensions | 310 cm × 410 cm (120 in × 160 in) |
In the Time of Harmony is a painting by the French artist Paul Signac, completed in 1895 in Saint-Tropez.[1] This pointillist oil painting on canvas represents the sea shore where numerous people perform different activities such as foraging, pétanque, reading, dancing, and painting. Shown at the Salon des indépendants in 1895, it has since been in the grand staircase of the Montreuil city hall in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The title of the work was originally In the Time of Anarchy.[2] It was changed by self-censorship. But the painting maintains a utopian subtitle without being overtly anarchist: "The golden age is not in the past; it is in the future."
References
- ↑ Bocquillon-Ferretti, Marina (2001). Signac, 1863-1935. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-998-7.
- ↑ Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate (2012). Nineteenth-Century European Art (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. p. 416.
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