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[[Image:Seurat-La Parade detail.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Detail from [[Georges-Pierre Seurat|Seurat's]] ''La Parade de Cirque'' (1889), showing the contrasting dots of paint used in pointillism.]]
[[Image:Seurat-La Parade detail.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Detail from [[Georges-Pierre Seurat|Seurat's]] ''La Parade de Cirque'' (1889), showing the contrasting dots of paint used in pointillism.]]
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'''Pointillism''' is a technique of [[painting]] in which small distinct dots of colour create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and optical blending. Aside from color "mixing" phenomena, there is the simpler graphic phenomenon of depicted imagery emerging from disparate points. Historically, Pointillism has been a [[Figurative art|figurative]] mode of executing a painting, as opposed to an [[Abstract art|abstract]] modality of expression.<ref>http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html</ref>
'''Pointillism''' is a technique of [[painting]] in which small distinct dots of colour create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and optical blending. Aside from color "mixing" phenomena, there is the simpler graphic phenomenon of depicted imagery emerging from disparate points. Historically, Pointillism has been a [[Figurative art|figurative]] mode of executing a painting, as opposed to an [[Abstract art|abstract]] modality of expression.<ref name=artcyclopedia/>


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.<ref>http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html</ref> It is a technique with few serious practitioners and is notably seen in the works of [[Georges Seurat|Seurat]], [[Paul Signac|Signac]] and [[Henri-Edmond Cross|Cross]]. The term Pointillism was first coined by [[art critics]] in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.<ref>http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html</ref>
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.<ref name=artcyclopedia>http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html</ref> It is a technique with few serious practitioners and is notably seen in the works of [[Georges Seurat|Seurat]], [[Paul Signac|Signac]] and [[Henri-Edmond Cross|Cross]]. The term Pointillism was first coined by [[art critics]] in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.<ref name=artcyclopedia/>


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-color [[CMYK]] printing process used by some color printers and large presses, Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Key (black). Televisions and computer monitors use a pointillist technique to represent images but with Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.
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-color [[CMYK]] printing process used by some color printers and large presses, Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Key (black). Televisions and computer monitors use a pointillist technique to represent images but with Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.

[[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 their [[retina]]s, someone whose mind has been primed with the theory of pointillism will ''see'' a very different image as the image is interpreted in the [[visual cortex]].<ref>
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| first =Jeffrey M.
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| coauthors = Begley, Sharon
| title =The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
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==Practice==
==Practice==
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* [[Stippling]]
* [[Stippling]]
* [[Circulism]]
* [[Circulism]]

* [[Divisionism]]
* [[Divisionism]]
* http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/seurat/seurat_overview.html


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html


==External link==
http://www.epcomm.com/center/point/point.htm
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{{Western art movements}}
{{Western art movements}}

Revision as of 02:27, 1 February 2010

Detail from Seurat's La Parade de Cirque (1889), showing the contrasting dots of paint used in pointillism.
Main article: Neo-Impressionism

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small distinct dots of colour create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and optical blending. Aside from color "mixing" phenomena, there is the simpler graphic phenomenon of depicted imagery emerging from disparate points. Historically, Pointillism has been a figurative mode of executing a painting, as opposed to an abstract modality of expression.[1]

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.[1] It is a technique with few serious practitioners and is notably seen in the works of Seurat, Signac and Cross. The term Pointillism was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.[1]

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-color CMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses, Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Key (black). Televisions and computer monitors use a pointillist technique to represent images but with Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.

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 their retinas, someone whose mind has been primed with the theory of pointillism will see a very different image as the image is interpreted in the visual cortex.[2]

Practice

If red, blue and yellow light (the additive primaries) are mixed, the result is something close to white light.[3] 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

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html
  2. ^ Schwartz, Jeffrey M. (2003). The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. Harper Perennial. p. 337. ISBN 0060988479. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ http://www.epcomm.com/center/point/point.htm
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