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In the following essay, I shall compare Georges Seurat's "Une Baignade à Asnières" and Paul Gauguin's "The Vision after the Sermon". Seurat's " Une Baignade à Asnières" shows in comparison the massive sense of form, which corresponded to the art of dividing and separating colors. This was a move past impressionism, though there is an Impressionist feeling in the landscaping with the river distance, the Courbevoie Bridge and the smoking factory chimneys of the industrial Paris suburb of Asnières. This great creation, for which Seurat had made so many prior drawings and oil studies, was painted with an extensive, smooth and even brush strokes placed on top of o