The student will use various art processes and techniques to produce works of art. The student will create a pointillist artwork from a supplied still life. A Sunday in the Park on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Go over vocabulary words and explain the process of pointillism.
Pointillism is a technique of painting in which a lot of tiny dots are combined to form a picture.
The reason for doing pointillism instead of a picture with physical mixing is that, supposedly, physically mixing colors dulls them. Most of the painters of Seurat's time blended the colors to make a picture with a smoother feeling than Seurat's bright, dotty works. Using optical mixing rather than physical mixing can create a brighter picture. Painting a pointillist piece is a slow and painstaking process. He was known for amazing devotion and concentration.