Pointillism
is a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary
colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary
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
Geoges Seurat,
Signac, and Cross.
The term itself 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
method of blending pigments on a palette or using the many
commercially-available premixed colors. The latter is analogous to
four-color printing process used by personal color printers and
large presses; Pointillism is analogous instead to the process used
by computer monitors and television sets to produce colors.
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