3 articles tagged with "Pointillism"
Georges Seurat invented Pointillism by treating painting as a science. Discover how he applied color theory to canvas and why his work still looks unlike anything else.
Georges Seurat spent two years painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte using a technique built on the science of color perception. This guide covers how pointillism works, who the people in the painting are, what critics said when it was first shown, and why the painting changed the course of modern art.
Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte is one of the most technically ambitious paintings of the 19th century. Discover how Seurat applied color theory, why he spent two years on a single canvas, what the rigid figures mean, and how the painting changed the course of modern art.