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Pointillism (/ ˈ p w æ̃ t ɪ l ɪ z əm /, also US: / ˈ p w ɑː n-ˌ ˈ p ɔɪ n-/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Pointillism Alfred William (Willy) Finch (1854 –1930) was a ceramist and painter in the pointillist and Neo-Impressionist style. Born in Brussels to British parents, he spent most of his creative life in Finland.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 030 33 × 46 More images: 1882 to 1883 Landscape in the Île-de-France [21] Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux 031 32.5 × 40.7 More images: 1882 to 1883 Man with a Hoe [22] National Gallery of Art, Washington. D.C. 034 15.5 × 24.7 More images: 1882 to 1883 The Stone breaker [23] National Gallery of Art, Washington ...
Artists followed new discoveries in perception with great interest. [28] Chevreul was perhaps the most important influence on artists at the time; his great contribution was producing a colour wheel of primary and intermediary hues. Chevreul was a French chemist who restored tapestries.
Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.
Young Woman Powdering Herself (French: Jeune femme se poudrant) is an oil on canvas painting executed between 1889–90, by the French painter Georges Seurat. [1] The work, one of the leading examples of pointillism, depicts the artist's mistress Madeleine Knobloch. [2]
Portrait of Félix Fénéon, by Paul Signac in 1890, oil on canvas, 73.5 × 92.5 cm (28.9 × 36.4 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York Portrait of Paul Signac by Georges Seurat in 1890, conté crayon, private collection Portrait of his wife, Berthe, painted at Saint-Tropez by Paul Signac, 1893, Femme à l'ombrelle (Woman with Umbrella), oil on ...
Hippolyte Petitjean (French pronunciation: [ipɔlit pətiʒɑ̃]; 11 September 1854, Mâcon – 18 September 1929, Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist painter who practiced the technique of pointillism.