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George Seurat. Pointillism Art Smart . What is Pointillism?. Pointillism describes the application of paint in dots or small dabs of color The idea behind pointillism is to not physically mix colors – instead you place specific colors next to each other – called divisionism
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George Seurat Pointillism Art Smart
What is Pointillism? • Pointillism describes the application of paint in dots or small dabs of color • The idea behind pointillism is to not physically mix colors – instead you place specific colors next to each other – called divisionism • When two colors are right next to each other, your eye mixes them in a process called, "optical mixing" • Optical mixing rather than physical mixing can create a brighter picture
How are Pointillism & Geometry related? • Points are building blocks of geometry. • A point is “that which has no length, width, or height.” • We also remember that a point is represented with (x,y), where x is the horizontal and y is the vertical; and, that in maps, a point represents a location • Points are very important especially for painters who use the technique called pointillism. Pixels • They are small dots on computer screens and other digital devices such as televisions, cellular phones, and cameras that make up the texts, photos, and videos we see. • Finding the number of pixels on a screen is just like finding the area of a rectangle; that is, multiplying the length and the width. • That means that a computer screen that has dimensions 1024 by 768 pixels has a resolutionof 788,736 pixels. • The more number of pixels, the better the graphics. Why?
COLOR • Color is a visual effect resulting from the human eye’s ability to distinguish different wavelengths of the light it reflects. • Objects that REFLECT wavelengths appear WHITE • Objects that ABSORB wavelengths appear BLACK • For example: a green object reflects green & absorbs all other wavelengths
All subjects were divided into: Primary colors • Red • Yellow • Blue Complimentary colors • Red/Green • Yellow/Violet • Blue/Orange
Who created Pointillism? • Invented by George Seurat (1859-1891 – died at age 31) • Born and lived in France • Due to his slow, meticulous method of painting, Seurat painted less than ten major works in his career – though he made hundreds of sketches and practice drawings • He was known for amazing devotion and concentration and worked on each painting for years • Seurat is known as a scientific painter because he created specific rules of how to use colors (based on scientific research) and composition
Seurat’s most famous painting • Seurat's famous "A Sunday in the Park on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (also known as "Sunday in the Park") covered a wall (81 inches by 120 inches), • It took him two years to complete. • The dots in a pointillist painting can be as small as 1/16 of an inch in diameter. • Based on these measurements, "Sunday in the Park" has approximately 3,456,000 dots!
Things to think about • Should the dots be close together and bunched up, or far apart? • If we wanted to make something in our painting look darker, what should we do? • What common items in our homes use the optical mixing of dots of color?
Lesson • Begin with larger paper • Tape the edges of the paper to table with tape • Sketch a landscape with a pencil • Dip the Q-tip into the paint • Pressing down lightly will make a small dot, more pressure will create a larger one • Try to fill up as much of the paper as possible with color • Remove the tape when the painting is dry • Begin small paper painting using one part of your larger painting.