Art Awareness Mrs. Fister’s 3 rd Grade Class by Jeffrey Zalc (14 May 2014)

George Seurat Born in Paris in 1859 In the summer of 1884, Seurat began work on A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which took him two years to complete.A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Fun Facts: This painting is 7 feet high by 10 feet wide. There are 3,456,000 dots that were painted to make up the painting Each dot is only about 1/16 th of an inch It was featured in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off It was the subject of a musical

The painting shows members of each of the social classes participating in various park activities. The tiny dots of multi-colored paints allow the viewer's eye to blend colors optically, rather than having the colors physically blended on the canvas. It took Seurat two years to complete this 10-foot-wide painting, much of which he spent in the park sketching in preparation for the work. It is now in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

George Seurat - Pointillism Seurat's style came to be known as Pointillism (from the French word "point," or "dot") — the idea of separating color into small touches placed side-by-side and meant to blend in the eye of the viewer. He felt that colors applied in this way — not mixed on a palette or muddied by overlapping — would make a more brilliant result.

Pointillism The primary color paint is applied to the canvas in small dots or “points” (actually small brush strokes). When viewed at a distance, the points of primary color blend to form a variety of non-primary colors. In effect, the colors in the painting are mixed in the viewer’s mind and not physically on the canvas! Similar to four-color CMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses that place dots of Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow, and Key (black).CMYK Televisions and computer monitors use a similar technique to represent image colors using Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.Red, Green, and Blue

Pointillism The pointillist artists used dots in the three primary colors. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. In order to create a secondary color, the artist put dots in two primary colors next to each other. The secondary colors are green, purple, and orange. For example, to create green, the artists placed yellow and blue dots close together. To make orange, the artists used red and yellow dots, and to create purple, the artists used red and blue dots. Pointillism is scientific. The artists had to think a lot about what they were doing.

Pointillism – Let’s make ART! Sketch a drawing using a pencil Use Pointillism to paint your picture! Use only yellow, red, and blue dots placed close together Create secondary colors by putting primary colors next to each other Have FUN!

Pointillism