Pointillism COLOR CARDS
Students will learn about the French Impressionist painter, Georges Seurat and his invented style of painting called, pointillism by creating Pointillist Color Cards.
“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” 1884 Georges Seurat's most famous works, and is an example of pointillism. Exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Musée du Louvre —is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument.
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The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is a renowned,[art museum located in Chicago's Grant Park. The Art Institute has one of the world's most notable collections of Impressionist.
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The Baltimore Museum of Art was founded in 1914. The highlight of the museum is the works by Matisse.
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Vocabulary
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Primary Colors are not made from mixing
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Secondary color area combination of 2 primary colors
Orange
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Green
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Purple
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What new information did you learn about the artist, Seurat?
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Georges Seurat was born in Paris on December 2, 1859 to Ernetine Faivre and Antoine Seurat, a property owner. Georges spent most of his childhood in Paris living with his mother, his brother and sister. When Georges was in school he began to draw and when he was sixteen years old, he took a course from a sculptor. Georges became fascinated with the relationship between lines and images and their aesthetic or beautiful appeal. Seurat attended the École des Beaux-Arts in 1878 and 1879. After a year of service at Brest Military Academy, he returned to Paris in 1880. He shared a small studio on the Left Bank with two student friends before moving to a studio of his own. For the next two years he devoted himself to mastering the art of black-and-white drawing. He spent 1883 on his first major painting—a huge canvas titled Bathers at Asnières.
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After his painting was rejected by the Paris Salon, Seurat turned away from such establishments, instead allying himself with the independent artists of Paris. In 1884 he and other artists formed the Société des Artistes Indépendants. There he met and befriended fellow artist Paul Signac. Seurat shared his new ideas about pointillism with Signac, who subsequently painted in the same idiom. In the summer of 1884 Seurat began work on his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which took him two years to complete.
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Restate or paraphrase the definition of Pointillism.
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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.
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Name two things you know about the painting,
“Sunday in the Park”. |
When two colors are right next to each other your eye mixes them in a process called, “optical mixing.” Using optical mixing rather than physical mixing can create a brighter picture. Painting a pointillist piece is a slow and painstaking process. Seurat’s famous “A Sunday in the Park on the Island of La Grande Jatte” (more commonly known as “Sunday in the Park”), which covered a wall (81 inches by 120 inches). He was known for amazing devotion and concentration. The dots in a pointillist painting can be as small as 1/16 of an inch in diameter! Based on these measurements, “Sunday in the Park” has approximately 3,456,000 dots!
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Videography
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The word combines "video" from Latin, meaning "I see“ with the Greek terminal ending "graphy", meaning "to write".
Videography refers to the process of capturing moving images on electronic media (e.g., videotape, direct to disk recording, or solid state storage like a tapeless camcorder) even streaming media. The term includes methods of video production and post-production. It is the equivalent of cinematography, but with images recorded on electronic media instead of film stock.
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TAG: After creating a Pointillism Color Card:
1. Videographer: Taking the video (making sure both people are on camera, holding camera steady, and recording) 2. Interviewer (Tell something Nice, Ask a Question, Give a suggestion) 3. Celebrity (answering the question about his/her artwork) |
Pointillism with tempera paint.
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Colors are mixed by placing the light color on the paper first, and color on top.
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Pointillism with encaustic paint: painting with melted crayon
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