Science and Art- Connections?

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Science and Art-Connections?

• Ryan Porter

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Georges Seurat 1859-1891

• Impressionist painter.
• Well known for his technique of pointillism.
• Pointillism- developed in France in the 1880s in
  which tiny dots of color are applied to the
  canvas.
• When viewed from a distance, the points of color
  appear to blend together to make other colors and
  to form shapes and outlines.

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Seurats technique uses the same optical illusion
that todays newspapers and magazines use in
their printing.
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Pointillism

• Seurat's dots may be seen as a kind of collage.
  They compel us also to see the picture as a
  finely structured surface made up of an infinite
  number of units attached to the canvas.

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Zoom in on Seurats works

• http//www.artsmia.org/uia-bin/uia_doc.cgi/list/14
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Link to Seurats Pointillism Paintings

• http//www.artchive.com/artchive/S/seurat.htmlima
  ges

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Interactive Zoom-in

• http//search.famsf.org8080/search.shtml?keywords
  georgesseurat

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Detailed Look at Pointillism
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How do these individual colors appear to blend
together?