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Detail from Seurat's Parade de cirque, 1889, showing the contrasting dots of paint which define Pointillism. 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.
The tiny juxtaposed dots of multi-colored paint allow the viewer's eye to blend colors optically, rather than having the colors physically blended on the canvas. It took Seurat two years to complete this 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) painting, much of which he spent in the park sketching in preparation for the work.
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.
Karl Otto Götz (born 1914), German artist, draftsman and art professor; Hendrick Goudt (1583–1648), Dutch painter, print-maker and draftsman; Tom Gourdie (1913–2005), Scottish artist, calligrapher and teacher; Francisco Josè de Goya (1746–1828), Spanish painter and print-maker; Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), Dutch landscape painter
It is a set of three-part display abstract oil paintings by the Spanish modern artist Joan Miró. The paintings are named Bleu I, Bleu II, Bleu III (in English, Blue I, Blue II, Blue III) and are similar. All are large paintings of 355 cm x 270 cm each, and are currently owned by the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The widely spaced letters "T V" appear as though carved into the stone parapet either side of the sleeve, with triangular dots around them. They are usually taken as Titian's initials (his name was "Tiziano Vecellio"), though there is a second V visible in infrared reflectography , so the painting once might have carried "the mysterious ...
Rubens Peale (1784–1865), American artist and museum curator; Titian Peale (1799–1885), American artist, naturalist, and explorer; Max Pechstein (1881–1955), German painter and print-maker; Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913–2007), Danish painter; Pedro Pedraja (born 1974), Spanish/English painter; Olivia Peguero (born 1963), Dominican painter ...
Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of Vincent's thoughts and theories of art, are recorded in the hundreds of letters they exchanged from 1872 until 1890. [8] Theo van Gogh was an art dealer and provided his brother with financial and emotional support as well as access to influential people on the contemporary art scene.