nPostednon December 2, 2013
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nDotn– dot – dot. It’s not Morse Code, but rather an art technique.
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Neo-Impressionistnpainter Georges Seurat (who was born in Paris, France, on this datenin 1859) invented what is known as pointillism. A multitude of tinyndots of many different colors are arranged so that our eyes blend thencolors. As you know, most painters blend the paint colors themselves,nso this technique was a new experience for viewers of Seurat’s time.nBut we experience this sort of dot-dot-dot image all the time on ournmonitors and televisions, and we often talk about pixels (dots ofncolored light).
Neo-Impressionistnpainter Georges Seurat (who was born in Paris, France, on this datenin 1859) invented what is known as pointillism. A multitude of tinyndots of many different colors are arranged so that our eyes blend thencolors. As you know, most painters blend the paint colors themselves,nso this technique was a new experience for viewers of Seurat’s time.nBut we experience this sort of dot-dot-dot image all the time on ournmonitors and televisions, and we often talk about pixels (dots ofncolored light).n
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nSeurat’snmost famous painting is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La GradenJatte. He spent a lot of time at the park sketching before he begannwork on this masterpiece; there are about 60 sketches, or studies ofnthe area. The painting is large—10 feet wide (about 3 m), and itntook about two years to complete!
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nPaintnwith dots!
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nHeren is an easy pointillism art project.n And thisn is another way to play around with pointillism.
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nThisn is a cool YouTube video that shows how points of colored light cann create a picture—each version of the picture uses smaller andn smaller dots.
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nHeren is a modern artist creating pictures inspired by pointillism.
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