POINTILLISM

Pointillism also known as Divisionism was in pictorial artistic style after impressionism at the end of the nineteenth century. The initiator was the French painter George Seurat from the principles of light and colour that promoted the impressionist movement.

It is a style of painting, consisting of the application of small dots of colour. When viewing images
from a distance, these small dots look like a single colour.

WHEN WAS THE POINTILLISM MOVEMENT??
Pointillism reached fame in the 1880 and 1890 after the impressionist movement. Many of the concepts and ideas, however, continued to be used by artists in the future.

GEORGES-PIERRE

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French post-impressionist painter. He stands out for his innovative use of drawing and for devising the painting technique known as pointillism.

Examples of Pointillism

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat)

This painting is by far the most famous of the Pointillism paintings. It was George Seurat. Seurat worked on it for around two years. You can see it today at the Art Institute of Chicago.