Pointillism

Landscape Painting

What is a landscape?

• A landscape is the visible features of land– Physical: Mountains, hills, trees– Water bodies– Land cover– Human made structures– Weather conditions

• Artists began depicting landscapes in earnest when industrialization changed landscapes with pollution and sprawl (1800’s-Industrial Revolution)

How were landscapes painted “traditionally”?

• Realistically depict features from studies outside. Paint in a studio

• Wivenhoe Park, John Constable 1816

How did Impressionism

change landscapes?

Claude Monet, Poppies Blooming….

Impressionism -1870

• Group of artists in France wanted to start a new, radical style of art

• Paint tubes allowed them to paint outside

• Railways made travel around countryside easy

• Invention of cameras made realism unnecessary

Monet, Landscape at Giverny

Impressionism-1870

• Works considered “cutting edge”

• Shocking to public

• Criticized as bad Artists

• By 1900’s widely accepted style

• Inspired many new ideas in Art

What was George Seurat’s vision for Impressionism

Seurat close up

Pointillism-Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat(soo-RAH)1859-1891

• Born in Paris, France

• Painter spent his life studying color and color theory

• Invented a style of painting known as POINTILLISM

MEET GEORGE!

Seurat the DOT!

What is pointillism?HINT: How am I made?

Horse by George Seurat

Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors..

The term "Pointillism" was first used with the work of Georges Seurat.

       

Sunday Afternoon in the Park by George Seurat

How eye sees color

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 1/16th of an inch

•It was featured in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off

•It was the subject of a musical

Painting the color wheel

• You are going to create a color wheel to help you with the Pointillism Project.

• Primary- red, blue, yellow• Secondary- purple, green, and orange• Intermediate- yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-

violet, red-orange, yellow-orange• When making the intermediate colors you mix the

secondary color first then add more of the primary color.• Example- red-orange: mix red and yellow to get

orange then add more red

FIRST: Choose a landscape from the reference file

NOW : Practice drawing it in your sketchbookWhere is the background? Middleground? Foreground?

Draw the physical elements

SATISFIED? Draw it on the Canvas Paper

• The next step is to use pointillism (dots) to create blending of colors in your painting.

• Look at your painting, where you used green, you can fill that area in using a tint and shade of green, and yellow -green dots that are close together.

• This technique can be used for all your colors. Use a tint, shade, and intermediate colors for the dots.

• ALL DOTS SHOULD BE CLOSE TOGETHER AND SMALL.

Enrichment: How to create a pointillist painting in Photoshop

Enrichment: Explore pointillism

• Color pencil pointillist work

• Create brochure for Sunday afternoon

• Create a digital pointillist painting– http://incredibleart.org/links/pointillator.html