Art style
• A way of expression shared by an individual artist or group of artists
• An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades)
Stippling
• In drawing, painting, and engraving, this is a technique that practices marking a surface with numerous small dots or specks
Pointillism
• A late 19th century style of painting in which a picture is constructed from dots of pure color that blend, at a distance, into recognizable shapes and various color tones
Georges Seurat
• Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman.
• Seurat is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the technique of painting known as pointillism
• Born: December 2, 1859, Paris, France
• Died: March 29, 1891, Paris, France
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
,, 1884–1885
Impressionism
• A late 19th century art movement that focused on creating an artwork that displays the immediate visual impression of a scene rather than capturing the exact details.
• Impressionist artworks typically use many short strokes of color to capture an experience rather than the scene as seen from life
Artist Appreciation: Claude Monet
Claude Monet
• Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting
• Monet is well known for plein-air landscape painting (in the open air)
• He was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy– Impressionist philosophy: expressing one's
perceptions before what is seen in nature
• Born: November 14, 1840, Paris, France• Died: December 5, 1926, Giverny, France
Aboriginal Dot Paintings
• Indigenous Australian art or Australian Aboriginal art is art made by the native peoples of Australia
• Dot paintings can be painted on anything though in aboriginal times they used to paint dot pictures on rocks, caves etc.
• This form of expression was a way of visually describing stories and legends on caves and rocks to represent their religion.
Chuck Close
• Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits and unique style of painting.
• Born: July 5, 1940 (age 73), Monroe, WA
• Period: Contemporary art