View modern art in a new light. (The one it was created in.).

From: Apollo | Date: September 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

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PAUL Signac was first seduced by the Cote d'Azur when he moored his yacht in St Tropez during May 1892.

His enthusiastic reports attracted other painters, among them Matisse, Bonnard and Dufy, and before long the area was home to one of the most important artistic colonies of the modern period.

The intensity of the light, the brightness of the colours and the raw beauty of the countryside purified palettes, dissolved form and changed the course of Western Art.

A hundred years on, the vivid sites and scenes that inspired these artists have ...

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