Everything about Pointillism totally explained
Pointillism is a style of
painting in which small distinct points of
primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors.
The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones and is related closely to
Divisionism, a more technical variant of the method. It is a style with few serious practitioners and is notably seen in the works of
Seurat,
Signac and
Cross. The term Pointillism was first coined by
art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.
The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the more common methods of blending pigments on a
palette or using the many commercially available premixed colors. Pointillism is analogous to the four-color
CMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses, and to a lesser degree to computer monitors and television sets which use tiny dots of primary red, green, and blue to render color.
Neuroplasticity is a key element of observing a pointillistic image. While two individuals will observe the same photons reflecting off a photorealistic image and hitting their
retinas, someone whose mind has been primed with the theory of pointillism will
see a very different image as the image is interpreted in the
visual cortex.
Practice
If red, blue and green light (the additive primaries) are mixed, the result is something close to white light. The brighter effect of pointillist colours could rise from the fact that subtractive mixing is avoided and something closer to the effect of additive mixing is obtained even through pigments.
The painting technique used to perform pointillistic color mixing is at the expense of traditional brushwork which could be used to delineate
texture.
Pointillism also refers to a style of 20th-century music composition, used by composers like
Anton Webern.
Notable Artists
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