Detail from Seurat's La Parade (1889), showing the contrasting dots of paint used in pointillism.

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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. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Le Chahut was painted by Seurat from 1889 to 1890. ... Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by the French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1887[1] to characterise the late-19th century art movement led by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, who first exhibited their work in 1884 at the exhibition of the Société des Artistes... For other uses , see Painting (disambiguation). ... This article is about colors. ... ... Le Chahut was painted by Seurat from 1889 to 1890. ... The Papal Palace, Avignon, oil on canvas, 1900 Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. ... Cypresses at Cagnes by Henri-Edmond Cross (1910) Henri-Edmond Cross (May 20, 1856 – May 16, 1910), was a French pointillist painter. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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. An artists palette A palette is: A thin board that a painter holds and mixes colour pigments on. ... Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black) CMYK (or sometimes YMCK) is a subtractive color model used in color printing. ...

Practice

Pointillism in printmaking: a chromolithography of a King Kelly baseball card from 1888.

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. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1695x2984, 5832 KB) King Kelly Boston Beaneaters Boston National League catcher Baseball cards 1 print : chromolithograph CALL NUMBER LOT 13163-08, no. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1695x2984, 5832 KB) King Kelly Boston Beaneaters Boston National League catcher Baseball cards 1 print : chromolithograph CALL NUMBER LOT 13163-08, no. ... Folding Card, The Old Woman Who Lived in A Shoe, 6 April 1883. ... $10,000 Kelly baseball card, ca. ... An example of a 1915 Cracker Jack Charles Comiskey card. ...

The brushwork used to perform pointillistic color mixing is at the expense of traditional brushwork which could be used to delineate texture. Texture in a painting is the feel of the canvas based on the paint used and its method of application. ...

Pointillism also refers to a style of 20th-century music composition, used by composers like Anton Webern. Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. ...

See also

• Neo-impressionism
• Stippling
• Circulism