“The idea of rivalry is not the macho cliché of sworn enemies, bitter competitors and stubborn grudge-holders slugging it out for artistic and worldly supremacy. Instead, it is about yielding, intimacy and openness to influence. It is about susceptibility.” (Author Sebastian Smee, The Art of Rivalry)

In this online series of lectures, Dr Marie-Anne Mancio shares the stories, artworks and legacies of various pairs of artists who have competed and cross-influenced each other while working in similar mediums, or with similar ideas.

In the third of this 'Double Acts' series we explore the work of two painters: the American artist Chuck Close, who died in 2021, a painter, visual artist, and photographer who from the late 1970s began to describe his portrait sitters using irregular grids of colour that read like pixelated mosaics; and the Post-Impressionist Georges Seurat who is best known for devising the painting technique known as pointillism where contrasting dots of colour produce gloriously bright but strangely static images.

Grab a glass of wine if you are on Europe time, or a coffee if in the USA and join the London Art Salon for our series of Zoom lectures with Dr Marie-Anne Mancio.

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