This joyful departure
into pointillism makes the idea of atoms understandable for the young reader.
Not exact matches
Terrin says his style has been referred to as «modern
pointillism»: bold strokes that appear abstract when viewed up close and come
into focus only when the viewer steps away from the canvas.
Probably the most famous example of Georges Seurat's
Pointillism technique is the 1884 - 86 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which had also inspired fellow Post-Impressionist Paul Signac to dive
into similar explorations.
They are unlike any other paintings being made in the world today: owing something perhaps to Seurat's
pointillism or the early works of Agnes Martin, but with an optical charge that is entirely individual and an internally generated sense of pace that invites the eye gently
into and across the surface of the painting.
They are unlike any other paintings being made in the world today: owing something perhaps to Seurat's
pointillism or the early works of Agnes Martin, but with an optical charge that is entirely individual and an internally generated sense of pace that invites the eye gently
into and across the surface of the paint.
Matisse had worked his own way
into abstraction through color, from perceptual studies based on Cézanne to the
pointillism of Signac, immersing his subjects in luminous space, from which boldly simplified color compositions like The Blue Window (1913) were to emerge.
These marks distinctly recall the
pointillism of Seurat and Signac, as well as the synthetic vision of Impressionism: When you step back from the canvas, the image snaps
into focus.