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My son (age 7) came home with his artwork folder and this painting was in it. I immediately recognized it as a Pointillism painting. It's a painting of him jumping into a pool, you can see the little figure of him and make out the large blue pool area.
Artist Georges Seurat developed this way of painting in 1886. He used tiny dots of pure color, side by side to create form in his paintings. When the colors are side by side they also fool the viewer's eye into blending the colors optically, rather than being blended on the canvas.
One painting that always comes to mind is the following titled,
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. According to Wikipedia the original piece of work is now in the Art institute of Chicago. Years ago I saw this in person and what a fantastic piece of art. The dots are so strategically placed. Such great 2D presence with the dots and just amazing control. He even dotted a frame around the image. He spent 2 years painting this 6 ft 10" x 10 ft 1" painting. He concentrated on color, light, and form.
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