Pointillism

Pointillism

Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is an offshoot of Impressionism, and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. Pointillism is focused on the specific style of brushwork, but not on the subject.

History

Pointillism is a painting technique, that was created by George Seurat (French,1859-1891) in 1880s and employed in his famous painting «A Sunday afternoon on La Grande Jatte» (an island in the Seine River in France)

«A Sunday afternoon on La Grande Jatte»

Paul Signac

Paul Signac was born in Paris. In creation of his first paintings he was influenced by Monet. In 1884 he took part in establishing of the «Society of independent artists» where with George Seurat founded pointillism.

«Breakfast»

«A still life with a book»

Vincent van Gogh

«The beach at Heist»

The scheme of Pointillism

The scheme of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the traditional methods of blending pigments on a palette. Pointillism is analogous to the four-color CMYK: Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow, and Key (black) printing process. Televisions and computer monitors use a similar technique to represent image colors using Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.

Complete the sentences

Pointillism is an art style, that was founded by

George Seurat

Paul Signac.

It is also called

and

Post-Impressionism.

Pointillism is based on

CMYK colors

that blend, generating others.

Pictures, belonging to this style are painted in

oil based paints,

but

transparent paints

and pencils also can be used.

Match the artist’s name with the picture, he painted

Paul Signac George Seurat Vincent Van Gogh Georges Lemmen

«Self-portrait» «Breakfast» «La Tour Eifel» «The Beach Heist»

Match the artist’s name with the picture, he painted

Paul Signac George Seurat Vincent Van Gogh Georges Lemmen

«Self-portrait» «Breakfast» «La Tour Eifel» «The Beach Heist»

Choose the right variant

Van Gogh and Paul Signac were born in France.

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2.George Seurat painted «The Circus» in 1890.

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3.The subject of «A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte» is an

afternoon on the bank of the Seine River.

True False Not stated

4.Paul Signac was the main founder of «Society of Independent Artists».

True False Not stated

5. «The beach Heist» is painted by French artist

True False Not stated

6. RGB colors are used in photography.

True False Not stated

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