Pointillism..........

    Pointillism is  creating solid color using dots. It is a really amazing thing if you get the chance to see one up close. The pioneer of pointillism is Georges-Pierre Seurat with his world famous painting of Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. (1884-1888)

Seurat proved himself worthy against his competitors with his painting in the 8th annual impressionist exhibit. Other painters were upset and felt challenged to show up his original pointillism painting. 

    Many other painter tried to do pointillism like Seurat, but non are as memorable as him. Camille Pissarro studied with Seurat and created works of art using the techqunies of pointillism as well.

This piece is called, Haying at Eragny. (1889). I find this piece very interesting because it does use techniques of pointillism but instead of simple dots, Pissarro uses small short strokes with his brush to get the bigger picture. I believe it would be difficult to use all of the shades of green that he uses in this piece. The woman is a main focus of the painting because she is the biggest thing and with her red shirt, it contrasts the green and stands out much more. 

    Vincent Van Gogh also painted using pointillism. Van Gogh had a hard, rough life but managed to create simply amazing works of art, my favorite being, Skull with a Burning Cigarette. I like that one because I take it as you smoke, you die. Simple. I like the simplicity of it, as I see it. 

The strokes of his brush are simple and you can see them. I like the simple colors also, of black and browns. It is a great piece. He also, as I said, used pointillism. He created 37 self portraits in a 4 year span and I found that amazing. I found that he created a self portrait using simple dots. This is called Self-Portrait (1887). He also uses short, little strokes to create a bigger picture. 

    I remember in my high school art class during my junior year, I had to do a pointillism piece and it was hard and time consuming  I went crazy easily with all of the little dots. Many times, I had to have my teacher take the original picture and my piece and hold them up away from me to see how I was doing. It turned out great, but two three weeks to make, when I usually took a week to finish a piece. My boyfriend also loves to create art and he has done a great piece of pointillism during a high school art class. He loves trucks and Chevrolet, so he did an engine. It took him four months to make because he wanted it perfect. It was in the Art Fair and it won in the Iowa State Fair. 

                     

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Bailey