Port of La Rochelle 1921

Paul Signac made "Port of La Rochelle" with oil on canvas, and what a trip it is! Can you imagine Signac standing there, methodically placing each little dab of color, trying to capture the shimmer of light on the water and the sky? It's like he's not just painting what he sees, but also how he sees. Those tiny strokes—they remind me of pixels, almost like an early form of digital art. The colors are so vibrant, and the way they blend together from a distance is just wild. I wonder if Signac ever got impatient with this pointillist method? I know I would! But maybe that's the point, to slow down and really look, to build an image dot by dot, thought by thought. It's all about that optical mix, right? Painters like Signac were in conversation with each other about the nature of perception, inviting us to see the world not as a solid, fixed thing, but as something always shifting, shimmering, and alive.