Pointillism

Chatdanai Plaingam (folk) 58110612 Group:3 Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch:30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work—notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color—had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound. His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.Van…

know the rock art is at least 14,000 years old. 14,000 years! So, to be clear, our interpretations of the cave art – the spirals and the dots – emphasize how much symbols can mean in artistic expression. So, let’s start with the dots – or the “pre-pointillism.” Remember,…

Georges Seurat The creator of Pointillism was born December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. Seurat’s first introduction and art lesson were introduced by his uncle. In 1875 he began attending attending a local art school, and started his first formal art lessons under sculptor Justin Lequien. Then he started training under artist Henri Lehmann when he attended École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1878 to 1879. However, Seurat choose to leave the school and continue to study on his own. He was very…

grass, to the colors of fabric on the clothes of the wealth, and even to the ripples and clearness of the water. What makes this painting stand out from many of the earlier paintings is Seurat’s use of Divisionism, commonly known as Pointillism (Gardner). Pointillism are dots of color with strategic placement based on concept of color theory. Seurat explains that he divides out the color and then creates tiny dots to the canvas by applying pure component colors which then leads to shapes,…

colors next to each other on the canvas and the eye would mix the colors. He called this way of painting Divisionism.("Art and Artists.") Today, it is known as Pointillism. Seurat thought that this new way of painting would make the colors appear better to the viewer. In 1884, Seurat began to work on a new masterpiece. He would use pointillism to paint a huge painting called Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. This painting would be 6 feet 10 inches tall by 10 feet 1 inches…

Vincent Van Gogh His Style A pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colours are used to generate secondary colours. It is an offshoot of Impressionism and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, except that where Divisionism is concerned with colour theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term "Post-Impressionism" was invented by the English painter and…

but he decided to pursue his childhood artistry at age 27. Vincent emerged as a symbol of Post-Impressionism because of his use of vivid colors, emotional portrayals, and unique canvas surfaces in every painting. Inspired by Seurat, he learned Pointillism from Émile Bernard. He intensified the color of his paintings by using stippling brush strokes. From a distance, these small touches created an optical blending of the color hues. This technique generated a strong contrast and a marvelous…

created. La Grande Jatte depicts groups of people enjoying their leisure time on La Grande Jatte. Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist artist, who was fascinated with the scientific representation of optical light and color. His use of divisionism and pointillism is an application of scientific painting technique to the popular subject matter of leisure time of middle class people. Ernst, on the other hand, was a Dada artist, embracing new techniques and art forms, combining the idea of readymade and…

very naturalistic. The lines used on Aurora Borealis elicit a conceptual connection. Portrait of Félix Fénéon gives an energetic vivid scenery of whirling hues. In this picture Signac catches the dynamic development by utilizing a system called pointillism. This style depended on logical…

In his Ted Talk speaker Phil Hansen had a neurological disorder to prevent his passion of art to destroy his dream. He was in a dark place emotionally, unable to create any art. The shake developed out of really a single minded pursuit of pointillism. He grabbed a pencil and let his handshake to scribble pictures. Phil experimented with art in ways that wouldn't affect his work. His destruction art idea turned into a year long project he called it goodbye…