Why a French Artist Censored the Title of his Painting?
Paul Signac’s use of art to portray his political ideology of anarchism in 19th-century France
A man is plucking a fig from a branch of a fig tree.
A mother tantalizing offers fig to her infant.
Two men play a game of boules, a French version of outdoor bowling.
A man is engrossed in a book.
Another man is painting near the seashore.
The background of the image features a group of people dancing near a tractor.
A couple is dancing and romantically involved in the center of the image.
And the rooster at the lower right of the image, which has been long a symbol of France, depicts a kind of announcement — the crowing of new dawn arising.
This is Paul Signac’s world — a pastoral image of a utopian community.
Paul Signac created the painting In the Time of Harmony: The Golden Age Has Not Passed, It Is Still to Come in 1896. But this was not the initial title of the painting.
‘In the Time of Anarchy’ was censored and renamed ‘In the Time of Harmony.’
What could have prompted Signac to change the name of the painting?
Signac’s artistic career
Paul Signac was a French artist and one of the prominent artists of…
