a painting technique devised by the French artist Georges Seurat which involves applying the paint in small, closely spaced dots of color. It is also known as divisionism and/or Neo-Impressionism.
A system of painting using tiny dots or "points" of color, developed by French artist Georges Seurat in the 1880s. Seurat systematized the divided brushwork and optical color mixture of the Impressionists and called this technique divisionism.
application of small dots of pure color in juxtaposition with one another to create images
Painting technique of creating an image from tiny dots of pure color applied painstakingly to a canvas.
A NEO-IMPRESSIONIST technique akin to OPTICAL MIXTURES, whereby closely intermingled dots or flecks of vivid colours, placed side by side, are combined in the viewer's brain to apparently produce a new colour which is more vivid than if that colour had been produced by blending. This term was disliked by the NEO IMPRESSIONISTS who preferred the term DIVISIONISM.
A postimpressionist school of painting was exemplified by Georges Seurat (1859-1891) and his follower, Paul Signac (1863-1935), in the 19th-century France Pointillistic paintings are characterized by the application of paint in small dots and brush strokes. Most images are clearly visible from a distance when the viewer's eye can blend colors to create visual masses.
A method of painting in which the dots of colors blend visually from a distance to create the illusion of forms, shapes, and outlines.
a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
A term, usually applied to nineteenth-century paintings, which describes the experimental use of colors applied in tiny “points.” The same effect can be seen in pile carpets when knots of different colors are tied closely together to provide texture, shade, or highlights on a form.
A patent procedure in which docks of color are used to create colors and values by optical mixing; for example, red and yellow used side-by-side blend optically to create orange, when viewed from a distance; closely linked with impressionism; also called divisionism, simultaneous contrast, neo Impressionism, and chroma luminarism. Prominent artists included Seurat and Signac.
Postimpressionist style of painting based on theoretical principles of human vision. Uses small dots of pure color to form a composition in an attempt to allow the eye to blend colors.
A branch of French Impressionism in which the principle of optical mixture or broken color was carried to the extreme of applying color in tiny dots or small, isolated strokes. Forms are visible in a pointillist painting only from a distance, when the viewer's eye blends the colors to create visual masses and outlines. The inventor and chief exponent of pointillism was George Seurat (1859-1891); the other leading figure was Paul Signac (1863-1935).
an area of French impressionism where color is broken up into dots or points. These points compose forms that are visible to the viewer only from a distance where the eye blends the points to create such forms or objects.
A technique developed by Georges Seurat out of the theory of color. Small dots or blobs of paint are placed side by sdie to create an optical illusion. From afar, the eye will blend these dots into the illusion of a realistic scene but upon close inspection they appear as a confusing mass of dots.
A way of painting that allows the eye of the viewer to blend the colors. Small areas of pure color are put side by side on the canvas so that at a distance the eye cannot differentiate between them but mixes them together and so experiences another color.
A genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th France
An art style of the late 19th century, in which small patches, dots or “points” of color are placed close together to build form, tone, light and shadow.
A painting technique in which a white background is covered with tiny dots of pure color that fuse when seen from a distance producing a luminous visual effect.
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 colors and to form shapes and outlines. Leading figure is Georges Seurat.
A style of painting using small dots of colour, developed by Georges Seurat in the 1880s.
Neo-impressionism, employing tiny, closely spaced points of color that blend to produce a luminous quality. (France, late 19th c.).See artist, George Seurat.
A branch of Impressionism using small dots of paint, based upon new ideas on colour theory, principally those of Michel-Eugène Chevreul. The dots of color blend in the viewer's eye to create the illusion of colour and light when viewed at an appropriate distance. The most famous exponent was George Seurat. See also optical mixing and stippling
Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary colors. 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 to Divisionism, 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.