ARTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Georges Seurat, Pointillism, Color Theory
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Shows the bourgoisie & ordinary parisians enjoing daily life. Sti and formal intention - classical version of impressionist form. Studies color theory to turn impressionist color freedom into a more scienti c / analytical approach to control colour. New technique, evenly textured - invented pointillism (application of paint in small dots (points) Divisionism - approach to color; his application of pointillism by breaking up color in groups & patches. He was so thorough he painted a series of studies blocking out color composition; analyzed how to bring image together. Technique in studies more choppy; pointillism border used as shock absorber becasue image was so autonomous from nature. > georges seurat (1859-1891: sunday afternoon on the island of la grand jatte - paul seurat (1884-1886) Monkey: call out to darwin"s theory of evolution. Island was known for being a socially illicit space. Composition accentuates diagonal space- locks them into distinct grid by painting them in select portrait, frontal, and 3/4 views.
