Stippling

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

Think of stippling as handmade computer pixels

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

Artist Appreciation: Georges Seurat

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

The Eiffel Tower 1889

The Circus, 1891

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

Woman with a Parasol, facing left, 1886

London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog, 1904

Water Lilies, c. 1915

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.

Artist Appreciation: Chuck Close

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

Mark (1979)

Lucas (1986–1987)