1. Pointillism
A Painting Style

2. After reading this PowerPoint you should be able to tell me…
Who invented pointillism
What pointillism is
When it was first used
Why we use dots

3. What’s Pointillism?
Pointillism is an original form of art created by George Seurat.
Pointillism is a bunch of tiny dots formed together to make a picture.

4. The Movement..
Pointillism began in France in 1886, and continued till 1906—select artists worked in this style for about 20 years before developing new techniques.
Why dots?
When two colors are next to each other, your eye mixes them and that is called optical mixing. Using optical mixing instead of physically mixing can make a brighter picture.
These artists believed that separate touches of pigments resulted in a greater vibrancy of color to the human eye.

5. Examples…

6. Impressed?
This style of painting seems easy to do, but it is very hard to make it work.
You need to plan the colors you will use so that the work does not begin to look muddy.
Pointillism takes a long time. For example, Seurat’s “A Sunday in the Park” took him two years to complete, covers a wall (81 inches by 120 inches) and has about 3,456,000 dots!

7. Georges Seurat Paul Signac Henri-Edmond Cross
The Artists…
Georges Seurat
Paul Signac
Henri-Edmond Cross

8. Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884

9. Georges Seurat Circus Sideshow, 1887

10. Paul Signac Port-en-Bessin, 1888

11. Paul Signac Snow, Boulevard De Clichy, Paris, 1886

12. Henri-Edmond Cross The Return of the Fisherman, 1896

13. Henri-Edmond Cross Landscape with Stars, 1905-1908

14. Henri-Edmond Cross Les Champs-Elysees, 1898

15. Some student work
Student examples

22. Here is a picture used to inspire one students work

23. Here is the student’s pointillism work 

24. The next slide has your first picture to try and copy using only points.