Pointillism is a technique where paintings are created using small, distinct dots of primary colors that blend together in the eye to form secondary and tertiary colors. It originated in the late 1880s with artists like Seurat and Signac who used overlapping dots in groups. Pointillist paintings can use regular dots in patterns or irregular dots like paint splatters. Some modern artists have experimented with pointillism using techniques like splatters, fingerprints, or volumetric dots to vary the style.
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2. Dot to dot : ‘A line is a walking point’(Paul Klee)
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Landscape (Paul Klee)
3. Definition
• Pointillism is a method
to draw and paint
using dots.
• It was first coined by
art critics in the late
1880s to describe the
artworks of George
Seurat and Paul Signac.
4. TECHNIQUE
Pointillism paintings
are done
overlapping groups
of primary color
dots to obtain
secondary and
tertiary colors.