Transition Year
Neo-Impressionist
Project
The Transition Year Art Class has been studying
French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painters. We particularly liked the
work of George Seurat, and his paintings made from thousands of tiny dots. This
technique is call Pointillism. We decided to make our own version of Sunday at
La Grande Jatte using the techniques Seurat used. We started by enlarging our
small copy of the painting onto a 3m X 2m board, the exact size of the
original. We then blocked in the main areas of colour so we could see where
everything would go. Once we were happy with this we mixed up all the colours we would need, just as Seurat would have. Then we
applied thousands of tiny dots to make our Pointillist painting. Seurat’s idea
was that the painting should be viewed from a distance to create optical
mixing. This is where all the dots merge and mix together in the viewer’s eye
rather than on the painting. So take a step back and enjoy our painting.
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