Pointillism

theories to help express more emotion into their paintings. The different painting techniques consists of synthetism, cloisonnism, pointillism, and divisionism. Synthetism is a style of painting that “involved the simplification of forms into large-scale patterns and the expressive purification of colour” (“Synthetism”). The person that receives credit for this style, Paul Gauguin, believes that to create the image of an impactful expression, one has to use abstract colors with impressions of nature (“Synthetism”). This simply means that if one captures the colors seen in nature, the piece will emphasize a greater expression. The pieces that use synthetism consists of a flat, 2D plane of bright colors. This painting style is also related to cloisonnism; which is a style that outlines the subject with dark lines and colors it in with bright, flat colors (“Encyclopædia Britannica”). This type of painting is in the same manner of stained glass or cloisonné enamel, which is where the word derives from (“Cloisonnism”). Paul Gauguin uses both of these styles in his painting, The Yellow Christ. Another painting style from the Post-Impressionist period is pointillism, which is “the practice of applying small strokes or dots of contrasting colour to a surface so that from a distance they blend together” (“Merriam-Webster”). George Seurat invents pointillism and uses it in many of his paintings, including in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. This style closely relates to divisionism, which…

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is a very powerful piece of art. There are many atrributes that stand out which make it a very unique piece of work. A Sunday Afternoon is a painting that uses a technique called Pointillism. Pointillism is a technique that uses small distinct dots of color that are applied to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac are the artists credited with creating Pointillism in 1886. Pointillism is derrived from Post-Impressionism and…

The Wikipedia entry on “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” states, “ Seurat spent over two years painting A Sunday Afternoon, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original as well as completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. With La Grande Jatte, Seurat was immediately acknowledged as the leader of a new and rebellious form of Impressionism called Neo-Impressionism.” I also learned that this painting is an example of pointillism,…

Fields, Eragny it is shown that Pissarro is a revolutionary painter in the styles and techniques he uses. This one in particularly is done in a pointillism style of painting. This painting was also done in his late career when he started branching off into new directions and broadening his fields of style and techniques. He was a master painter that would draw from real life and always do landscapes and street side painting of what was around him to study how the color was affected by the time.…

Vincent Van Gogh67 is known by most people for his cubism work. Not many people know about his earliest works. They also do not know about all of his portraits and how they change though out his lifetime. Because of that reason is why I chose to write about the evolution of Van Gogh’s self-portraits. Van Gogh painted at least 30 self-portraits from 1886 through 1889, an amazing number of likenesses to complete in such a short time span. They represent his most active years as a master artist,…

In the late 1880s Georges Seurat and Paul Signac began a painting technique called pointillism. The technique relies the human brain’s ability to merge individual marks of color into bright smears and smudges—forming objects, conveying ideas, and narrating stories. From far away, each speck is part of something bigger than itself—a shadow, an umbrella, or a woman’s hat. Each speck of oil paint the pointillist marks onto his blank canvas is different in shade, texture, size, and purpose. Specks…

I had to understand why Seurat used such a difficult technique for his work. I then came upon the theory that perhaps he wanted to produce a deeper sense of life in his paintings. All things in the world are composed of millions of cells, and these cells create objects, color, and everything that practically exists. I imagine that Seurat's motive was to utilize this scientific law in his work to give an atmosphere of life, texture, and movement in the scenes that he…

arts in The Ecole des beaux arts, which is the official school of arts in Paris. In such a school, he was trained by the artist Henri Lehmann. But, he left this school; as he got frustrated by the strict academic ways, and then started to learn on his own. He visited the 4th Impressionist Exhibition in 1879 and he got influenced by Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet. He was also fascinated by the large-scale paintings of the artist Puvis de Chavannes. Seurat died on 29th March 1891, at the age of…

1 Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte: George Seurat, 1884 George Seurat, 1859-1891, was a very young French artist who revolutionized the art world. The artists of the day were impressionists but this young artist used what is now referred to as pointillism or divisionism, by using tiny dots and strokes. As part of the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection this large oil on canvas painting, measuring 81 ¾ x 121 ¼ was created in 1884. From a distance the painting looks as…

This image depicts people engaged in the activities of everyday life. However, Seurat developed a new method of applying color theory called pointillism to this image. Color theory is the understanding of how colors can relate to each other, especially when they are mixed together or in close proximity to each other. Pointillism is a style of painting where short strokes or points of differing colors are used to form new colors. This image contains a revolutionized way of perception as well as…