1. Georges Seurat
Pointillism

2. Georges Seurat ( )
Georges Seurat was born into a very rich family in Paris, France. He was born on December 2, 1859.
His father, was a customs official who was often away from home. Georges, his brother Emile and sister, Marie-Berthe, were raised primarily by their mother in Paris.
Seurat received his earliest art lessons from an uncle. He began his formal art education around 1875, at the age of 16, when he began attending a local art school and studying under sculptor Justin Lequien.
Seurat was also interested in the science behind art, and he did a good deal of reading on perception, color theory and the psychological power of line and form.

3. What is Pointillism?
Pointillism is a technique of painting in which a lot of tiny dots are combined to form a picture.

4. Interesting Facts about Pointillism
Seurat called the style of painting Divisionism when he invented it, but the name was changed over time.
Vincent van Gogh even tested out the technique when painting his famous self portrait in 1887.
The smaller the dots, the clearer the painting and the sharper the lines. In many ways Pointillism was as much a science as an art.
The style often used dots of complementary colors to make their subjects more vibrant. Complementary colors are colors of the opposite hue, for example red and green or blue and orange.
This painting method utilizes colors in patches that essentially trick the human eye into blending them, creating luminance and shape.

5. The Pointillism Color Wheel
The primary colors
The secondary colors.
All by the use of Pointillism

6. We are going to take a quick look at Seurat’s painting,
“Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, 1886
This painting is approximately 7’ x 10’ in size, has 3,456,000 dots, and took two years to paint!
Seurat would visit the banks of the island daily, sketch what he saw and then spend hours in his studio painting
from his sketches.

7. Pointillism

8. Pointillism
Close…
Closer…
What are you seeing?

9. What colors do you see? Are they blending together?
Pointillism
Do you see the dots?
What colors do you see? Are they blending together?

10. Some Fact about Georges Seurat’s
The Circus (Le Cirque), 1891
The Circus is famously known as Georges Seurat's final work before his death in March 1891.
It was an unfinished painting that was purchased by Paul Signac after the death of Seurat.
This is a depiction of the Cirque Fernando, in Paris.
The dimensions of the painting are 73 × 60 inches or just over 6 x 5 feet

11. The Circus, 1891
This is a close up of
the rider’s leg.

12. An even closer view of the woman sitting behind the rider.
Do you think you can make a project using dots?