Pointillism and colour theory.
Pointillism Paul Signac, Venice- The Pink Cloud (1909) Georges Seurat- la senna alla grande-jatte (1888) Pointillism was a revolutionary technique coined by artists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in 1880. This developed after impressionism and was a pictorial technique which consisted of applying small individual dots of colour to form an image. The technique is distinct in its approach to application in that dots were applied of specific colour tones to create an almost illusionistic transformation of colour, where by the application of paint is carefully considered so that they would be blended by the viewer when looking into the painting. Therefore, instead of mixing colours on a palette, these artists wanted the colour mixing to be achieved through looking. Pointillism relied on scientific theory about optical applications. Charles Henry, a French mathematician-physiologist-psychologist, wrote a book called "The Chromatic Circle" which was all about how the positionin
