"Au Temps d'Harmonie (In Times of Harmony)" is one of Paul Signac's most ambitious works, a large Pointillist composition begun in the early 1890s depicting an idealized future society at leisure by the sea. Signac, an avowed anarchist, originally titled the painting "Au Temps d'Anarchie" before softening its title, though its utopian vision of a harmonious, classless society at ease remained unchanged. Painted using the small, distinct dots of pure color that define Neo-Impressionism, it reflects Signac's belief that the movement's scientific color theory could carry a genuinely political, utopian message.
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