Pointillism Pointillism is an artistic movement related to painting It was invented by the French artist George Seurat Pointillism But What is Pointillism? It consists on using small dots of pure colour to compose painting The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte Size: 2m x 3m (207 x 308 cm) 3,456,000 dots Seurat worked on it for 2 years Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte Start Date: 1884 Completion Date: 1886 Place of Creation: France Style: pointillism Genre: painting Technique: oil Material: canvas Gallery: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Pointillism Pointillism used the science of optics to create colours, lines and shapes They experimented with colour in the following way: Now lets experiment a little bit with colours and dots