Miss Lunn Art

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

The history of the 'Still life'   A Still life is normally a composition of inanimate (everyday) objects that are arranged together for a specific impact chosen by the artist. Many art movements explore the still life and it is a popular choice of subject matter that uses organic objects such as food, flowers, rocks, plants etc. These objects are usually arranged on a table that also includes household items such as glassware and textiles. The term "still life" comes from the Dutch word 'stilleven'.  The still life originates from the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Egyptian still life paintings focused on food such as fish and meat. The paintings were discovered in ancient tombs which represented scenes of everyday life. The images were also considered as religious symbols.  The Greeks and Romans were more detailed and realistic as they used more shading and tonal values . These were painting on buildings and became wall paintings.  Guiseppe Arcimbold