1. Stippling

2. Art style
A way of expression shared by an individual artist or group of artists
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades)

3. Stippling
In drawing, painting, and engraving, this is a technique that practices marking a surface with numerous small dots or specks

4. Think of stippling as handmade computer pixels

10. Pointillism
A late 19th century style of painting in which a picture is constructed from dots of pure color that blend, at a distance, into recognizable shapes and various color tones

11. Artist Appreciation: Georges Seurat

12. Georges Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman.
Seurat is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the technique of painting known as pointillism
Born: December 2, 1859, Paris, France
Died: March 29, 1891, Paris, France

13. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,, 1884–1885

17. The Eiffel Tower 1889

18. The Circus, 1891

19. Impressionism
A late 19th century art movement that focused on creating an artwork that displays the immediate visual impression of a scene rather than capturing the exact details.
Impressionist artworks typically use many short strokes of color to capture an experience rather than the scene as seen from life

20. Artist Appreciation: Claude Monet

21. Claude Monet
Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting
Monet is well known for plein-air landscape painting (in the open air)
He was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy
Impressionist philosophy: expressing one's perceptions before what is seen in nature
Born: November 14, 1840, Paris, France
Died: December 5, 1926, Giverny, France

22. Woman with a Parasol, facing left, 1886

23. London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog, 1904

24. Water Lilies, c. 1915

25. Aboriginal Dot Paintings
Indigenous Australian art or Australian Aboriginal art is art made by the native peoples of Australia
Dot paintings can be painted on anything though in aboriginal times they used to paint dot pictures on rocks, caves etc.
This form of expression was a way of visually describing stories and legends on caves and rocks to represent their religion.

30. Artist Appreciation: Chuck Close

31. Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits and unique style of painting.
Born: July 5, 1940 (age 73), Monroe, WA
Period: Contemporary art

32. Mark (1979)

33. Lucas (1986–1987)