Posted
on December 2, 2013
Dot
– dot – dot. It's not Morse Code, but rather an art technique.
Neo-Impressionist
painter Georges Seurat (who was born in Paris, France, on this date
in 1859) invented what is known as pointillism. A multitude of tiny
dots of many different colors are arranged so that our eyes blend the
colors. As you know, most painters blend the paint colors themselves,
so this technique was a new experience for viewers of Seurat's time.
But we experience this sort of dot-dot-dot image all the time on our
monitors and televisions, and we often talk about pixels (dots of
colored light).
Seurat's
most famous painting is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grade
Jatte. He spent a lot of time at the park sketching before he began
work on this masterpiece; there are about 60 sketches, or studies of
the area. The painting is large—10 feet wide (about 3 m), and it
took about two years to complete!
Paint
with dots!
- This is a cool YouTube video that shows how points of colored light can create a picture—each version of the picture uses smaller and smaller dots.
- Here is a modern artist creating pictures inspired by pointillism.
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