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2. Georges Seurat Founder of Pointillism
Started in Paris, France during the 19th century
Georges Seurat was also the founder of the French school of Neo-Impresssionism.
Leader in the neo-impressionist movement of the 19th century
Spent his life studying color theories and the effects of different linear structures

4. Timeline Before Pointillism came Neo-Impressionism
After Pointillism came Italian Divisionism

5. Pointillism
The technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colors.
Uses small dots or strokes of contrasting color to create subtle changes in form.
Most pointillism works of art are paintings.
Led to influence Neo-Impressionism, Pop Art, and Chromoluminarism.

6. Artists Georges Seurat Paul Signac Vincent van Gogh Henri-Edmund Cross
Charles Angrand
Camille Pissarro

7. 4 Characteristics Small brushstrokes Dots/Points Contrasting colors
Play of light

8. Georges Seurat, 1884, France, La Grande Jette, oil, canvas

9. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884-1886.

10. Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1887,

11. Paul Signac, Femmes au Puits, 1892,

12. The Eiffel Tower (1889)
Fine Art Museum of San Francisco

13. View of Fort Samson, Grandcamp 1885 (130 Kb); Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 32 in; The Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Formerly Collection of Bernhard Koehler, Berlin

14. Georges Seurat Woman Powdering Herself 1889

15. The Pont Neuf, ca. 1912–14 Hippolyte Petitjean (French, 1854–1929) Watercolor and gouache on paper 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (250 x 190 cm) Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 ( )

16. The Church at Eragny, Camille Pissarro, 1884. The Walters Art Museum.

17. Signac, Paul - 1886 Portrait of Felix Feneon

18. Maximilien Luce, Morning, Interior, 1890, using pointillist technique.

19. Paul Signac, Sunday,