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    La Tour Eiffel. Published in La Veu de Catalunya, 1 February 1912 Jean Metzinger, 1910–11, Paysage (whereabouts unknown); Gino Severini, 1911, La danseuse...
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    retina, at a certain distance. Its best exponents were Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Seurat devoted his entire life to the search for a method that would...
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    Home Insurance Building in Chicago, by William Le Baron Jenney (1884) The Eiffel Tower being constructed (August 1887–89) The debut of new materials and...
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    post-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat's development of Divisionism, the "dots" used to paint A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. On the other...
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