Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Detail showing Pointillism technique

I really like this painting because i'm very impressed with the Pointillism technique. these paintings inspire me for some reason.
Georges Seurat - La Parade (1889) - detail showing pointillism technique.
Instead of painting outlines and shapes with brush strokes and areas of colour, pointillism builds up the image from separate coloured dots of paint. From a distance, the dots merge and appear to be areas of shaded tones, but the colours have an extra vibrancy from the juxtaposition of contrasting dots.

1 comment:

  1. I also like Pointillism very much and can appreciate the painstaking efforts to create these beautiful paintings.

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