125 Years of Color- Color Patterns per Decade

http://colourific.blogspot.com/2010/06/125-years-of-color.html

Interesting post on blogger from regarding a seminar from Benjamin Moore a few years back.  The images in the posting are actually used in the video Julia sent us today.


How do you think the 2010s will be represented in terms of color....:?

Pointilism Optical Mixing

I've always been a fan of pointilism paintings... I came across this comparison of Georges Seaurat's 

 La Parade de Cirque(1889) 

and this dithered photo of a man.  

It started me thinking about Roy Lichtenstein's use of it in Pop Art work as he emulated the CMYK printing process in large format.

I then started researching DITHERED photos and found this image.  It is essentially a magnified digital image, but I found it very interesting in terms of composition and the use of SQUARE pixels mixing to create an image.  I am tempted to use a more squared off point in my Week 7 assignment to juxtapose the soft lines of the objects in my still life...

Yes.  I am week behind due to a SEVERE cold I came down with last Wednesday and have finally just rid myself of yesterday...

Info Graphic about Colors

Click here to see a larger overview of the photo. 

Pointillism finds

I find it so interesting little points of color like "pixils" complied closely together or far apart, accompanied with dark or cool colors to emphasize shadow and depth.

Paul Signac, Sunday, 1888-1890

Pointillism Bunki Kramer

"Billie" Denise Landis

Thomas Leslie Conroy

Pointillism - Neue Pinakothek Munich

For this weeks assignment, I decided to go on a Museum trip to the "Neue Pinakothek" here in Munich, Germany. Since this one displays a variety of European Art paintings of the 18th and 19th century. It is known as one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century. 

Here my finds about Pointillism: 

Theo van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926) "Springbrunnen im Park Sanssouci in Potsdam, 1903" 

Study of a Fountain / Sanssouci Palace, Germany 

Georges Pierre Seurat (1859 – 1891) "The Seine and la Grande Jatte - Springtime 1888" 

Normally exhibited at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 

In my visit to this museum, I realized how Seurat´s Pointillism technique had evolved in time. For example in Vincent van Gogh's and Henry van de Velde's paintings you can see that the brush strokes become more comma shaped than dotted. Here some examples: 

Henry van de Velde (1863 - 1957) "Garden in Kalmthout - 1892"

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) " View of Arles - 1889"

Looking forward to see your paintings! 

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Pointillism

Pointillism branched out from Impressionism during the late 1880s, and I found quite a few striking example of this technique by famous artists from that period:

Georges Seurat used a light and muted palette to achieve a diffused, hazy impression of his landscapes, as if you are looking through a misty rain or a textured glass window.

La Tour Eiffel, 1889, Georges Seurat (1859–1891)

View of Fort Samson, 1885, Georges Seurat (1859–1891)

Vincent van Gogh also used pointillism in some of this paintings. In the self portrait below, he used contrasting warm and cool colors to create sharp highlight and shadows on his facial features, as well as adding energy and vibrancy to the background. In particular, he used a cool green to add contrasting shadows on his face and hair, and this corresponds with the color of his eyes, his tie, the trimming on the collar, and the background.

Self-portrait, 1887, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)

In many of his other works, he also used optical mixing, but using directional brush strokes instead of points.

The Starry Night, 1889, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)

I also like the following painting by Belgium artist Georges Lemmen. I think it is very successful in capturing the brightness of the yellow and orange light during sunset by using pointillism.

The Beach at Heist, 1891/2, Georges Lemmen (1865 – 1916)

Pointilism example

This is a little bit different from what we are doing this week because it is black and white, but I found it so compelling I had to post it as an example of pointilism.

This is 'The Thinker' created by contemporary artist Aaron Baggio using black ink. The effect is achieved by creating different values by altering the concentration of dots in an area.