Pointillism: Light in the Woods II

Pointillism

Light in the Woods II

Dr Abe V Rotor

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Pointillism, also known as Divisionism, is a highly accomplished pictorial technique. It trains the eye and the mind to blend and assimilate patches of color. Developed in the mid-1880s by French painters Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, pointillism was initially ridiculed, but it later influenced movements like Neo-Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.*

Light in the Woods II, painted in acrylic by the author, circa 2000

"Movements in the arts indeed an evolution,

adventure in the woods when young and old,

rising from the past to the new generation, 

from Van Gogh to Matisse - the coy, the bold."

- avrotor 

*The pointillist theory holds that one can only distinguish the dots from each other from a certain distance. The farther one gets from the work, the better one can consider it as a whole. The visual result obtained is quite different from that which arises from a prior mixing of colors on a palette. Acknowledgement: Internet.