The National Gallery’s Radical Harmony exhibition (13 Sep – 8 Feb) will offer a rare opportunity in London to experience first-hand encounters with a wide range of key Neo-Impressionist works from the Kröller-Müller collection.

In this presentation with independent art historian Jo Rhymer, we will look at a small selection of featured works by key artists including Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Théo van Rysselberghe. As we explore audacious painting techniques and dynamic compositions, we will consider ways in which Neo-Impressionist pictorial language was a response, not only to recent advances in avant-garde painting, but also to changes in modern society.

About the Speaker

Jo Rhymer has taught and programmed for numerous prestigious museum and gallery learning departments and was formerly Head of Adult Learning programmes at the National Gallery. She is a freelance lecturer and teaches regularly for a range of institutions including the V&A and the Wallace Collection; she is a Panel Tutor at the University of Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education, and an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society. Her art history specialisms are 19th- and early 20th-century French art, and she is interested in the skills associated with looking slowly at paintings.

Header image from the National Gallery.