Georges Seurat - Hi Painting
Georges Seurat used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it woth at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspective depth, the broad landscape planes of color and light, and the way shadows were used. Everything tends to come back to the surface of the picture, to emphasize and reiterate the two dimensional plane of which it was painted on. Also ...
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painting very realistic. The question is, how does Seurat go about making the painting look so lifelike?
Pointillism was a major reason in why Seurats painting looks so lifelike. During the painting of La Grande Jatte, Seurat simplified his brushwork to such an extent that his painting seems to be composed of nothing but tiny, more or less circular dots. Seurat’s experiments with color led him to paint in small dots of color which are arranged in such combinations that they seem to vibrate. Individual colors tend to interact with those around them and fuse in the eye of the viewer. This approach is not unlike the dots or pixels in a computer image. If you magnify any computer image sufficently, you will see individual colors that, when set together, produce an image. Seurat was interested in the way colors came about. With the enhancement of the luminousity of colors made possible by the investigation of scientific optics, he saw positive merit in a method in which the ...
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are introduced into an area of another color, or when touches of two colors are set side by side, is not retinal fusion, but rather a kind of mental(not visual) averaging, for the area involved, of the colors or their values. That is, if some touches of ultramarine are introduced into an area of yellow, we see both sets of touches, but we apprehend the area as having so much blue in it, or being so much darker in this case. This is a process of the mind rather than of the retina’. That is why La Grande Jatte, seen at close range, appears more interesting in color than from a distance. Paul Signic noticed this when the picture was exhibited in Brussels in the spring of 1887 ...
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