Pointillism
Pointillism is a style of
painting in which small distinct points ofprimary color s create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors. __TOC__The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones and is related closely toDivisionism , a more technical variant of the method. It is a style with few serious practitioners and is notably seen in the works of Seurat, Signac and Cross. The term Pointillism was first coined byart critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the more common methods of blending pigments on a
palette or using the many commercially available premixed colors. Pointillism is analogous to the four-colorCMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses, and to a lesser degree to computer monitors and television sets which use tiny dots of primary red, green, and blue to render color.Neuroplasticity is a key element of observing a pointillistic image. While two individuals will observe the same photons reflecting off a photorealistic image and hitting theirretina s, someone whose mind has been primed with the theory of pointillism will "see" a very different image as the image is interpreted in thevisual cortex . [cite book
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If red, blue and green light (the additive primaries) are mixed, the result is something close to white light. The brighter effect of pointillist colours could rise from the fact that subtractive mixing is avoided and something closer to the effect of additive mixing is obtained even through pigments.
The painting technique used to perform pointillistic color mixing is at the expense of traditional brushwork which could be used to delineate texture.
Pointillism also refers to a style of 20th-century music composition, used by composers like
Anton Webern .Notable Artists
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Chuck Close
*Henri-Edmond Cross
*John Roy
*Georges-Pierre Seurat
*Paul Signac
*Maximilien Luce Vincent van Gogh also learned and used Pointillismee also
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Stippling
*Circulism
*Color separation References
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pointillism — A method of painting developed in France in the 1880s in which tiny dots of color are applied to the canvas. When viewed from a distance, the points of color appear to blend together to make other colors and to form shapes and outlines.… … Glossary of Art Terms
pointillism — noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: French pointillisme, from pointiller to stipple, from point spot, from Old French more at point Date: 1901 the theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from … New Collegiate Dictionary
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pointillism — noun In art, the use of small areas of color to construct an image. Syn: divisionism … Wiktionary
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