Stippling Art style A way of expression shared

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 19 th 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 19 th 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)