POINTILLISM / SEURAT Unrr: Making an Impact...Large Scale SthGrade 60mins ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PRINCIPAL OF DESIGN MEDIUM Color & Texture Repetition Computer Graphies DISCIPLINES: Art & Social Studies STANDARDS: SOCIAL STUDIES 2. Historical Comprehension G. Draw upon the visual data presented in photographs, paintings, cartoons, and architectural drawings. unziroenhsuel Standart So ade 4hisorical sinking INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: ‘© Student become familiarized with concepts and techniques of pointillism. Students become familiarized with artistic process; learning those of other artist, and borrowing 1. CD (for presentation, and install on computers for use & reference of materials) Pointilism Lesson Slides - famous artist productions ‘© Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte (Oil) by Georges Seurat 1884-86 ‘© Robert Andrews and Frances Carter Andrews (oil) by Thomas Gainsborough 1748-50 Femmes au Puits (Oil) by Paul Signac 1892 Provence Landscape (Oil) by Henri-Edmond Cross 1900 Big Self-Portrait (acrylic) by Chuck Close 1968 Fanny Fingerpainting (Oil based ink) by Chuck Close 1985 © Throwing Blankets (Pushpins) by Eric Daigh 2012 Websites: http://w photo-kako.com/en/pointillism.cgi http//incredibleart.org/links/pointillator. him! Nature Images - for use of pointillistic computer art production 2, Pointillism Fact Sheet VocaBUuLary / TERMS: Pointillism Draft Scale Artistic Process Lauren N. Granola Page tof 6Lesson Aesthetic Questions ‘While the class views and analyses the different photos of the art, they should consider: How does the pointillistic style show varying; Color, Texture, Repetition? Ifneeded, review or write these terms. For example: Descriptive Terms. COLOR + primary colors: red, blue, yellow + intensity: brightness or dullness of a color + hue: undiluted color, color in purist form + value: lightness or darkness of the hue + blending: how colors appear mixed TEXTURE REPETITION Anticipatory Set “What can one dot mean? Can it make anything in detail?” -Allow time for answers -Draw dot on the board “Sometimes, not much on its own, but grouped together with many dots, something totally new can be created” (slide 1, Seurat Grande Jatte...) “All these little dots, created this...” (slide 2, Seurat Grande Jatte...) Art History "..Georges Seurat's painting, Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatie (in English, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) in 1884. This is his most famous and largest painting” “Why do you think this technique is called pointillism? (allow time for response) Seurat made pointillism famous. He believed that instead of blending the color with his brush strokes, the human eye could do the blending with right amount of dots and color variation. La Grande Jatte needed to be large enough with many small dots to achieve the effect of blending. It is about 10 feet long. Lawen N. Graniela Page 20f6Seurat's artistic process required a lot of time and planning so that the dots would be composed effectively relay his colors and figures. He made many drafts before beginning the painting. He used 28 drawings, 28 panels and 3 larger canvases to get the large scale he needed. He worked on the painting from 1884 to 1886, Some people criticized that his process was too fechnical. What do you think?” (allow time for response) “Pointillism inspired people to paint differently from the more realistic way many people had been painting since the Renaissance between the 14th & 17th centuries “We will look at some other examples of pointillism. I want you to note the colors, textures, repetition of these works” (lide 3) “Notice the brush strokes, and the color blending of this 1748 painting by Thomas Gainsborough, especially on the woman's skirt.” (allow time for response) “Now, look at the the zoomed-in Seurat segment again” (slide 1) “He used solid dots of different colors to create the shadows and pink dress of the woman in the center with the small child” (slide 2, then compare slides 1 & 4) “He scattered and repeated colors in different variations, to create difference in value, like for shadows. For determining the shadowing colors he used blues and colors surrounding the objects" “With pointillism the artist uses dots to create the allusion of: blending colors, and adding texture to solid objects. Depending on how small the dots are, what colors are used, or how close together the dots are, the picture has a different illusion” “Seurat also created the Divisionism or Chromoluminarism technique. Chromoluminarism comes from the words chromo, meaning color, and lumo, meaning light. This technique creates color luminosity. The luminous nature is achieved through using primary colors next to each other so the eye can blend the dots into secondary colors. After Seurat's death, artist Paul Signae continued with the techinique with beautiful expertise.” (Glide 5, allow time for response) “This piece is called ‘Femmes au Puits’, ‘Women at the Well’. Signac highly advocated the banishing of ‘muddy mixtures’, in which artist premixed their colors.” “Notice what a different effect is created with the painting by another pointllist, Henri- Edmond Cross, with using larger dots of color” (show slide 6, allow time for response) Lauren N. Granola Page 2066“In the 1960's artist Chuck Close became famous for his hyperrealist or photorealist work” (slide 7) “This self portrait was made in 4 months. As you can see his work tends to be very large seale and realistic. For his artistic process he used photographs as drafts; he takes a photo of the subject, grids it, and scales-up to create huge pieces. For this self portrait he used airbrush acrylic paint. (allow time for response) “After Close suffered from a stroke he became wheelchair-bound, he had to find new ways to create his art” (lide 8) “This is a portrait of his Grandmother-in-law. If you look at the close-up, you can see the dots he uses” {allow time for response) “In some areas they are lighter and in some are darker. He used fingerprints, with an oil- based ink. To achieve the shadows and light to dark contrast, he layers his fingerprints. (lide 9) “Erie Daigh is a modern poimillist. He creates huge works made by small dots to help our eyes blend the colors” (lide 10) “He uses the classic Divisionism or Chromoluminarism technique of only using primary colors so the eye can blend the dots into secondary colors. What are some the primary colors and secondary colors you see?” (allow time for response) “Can you tell what he uses to make the dots?” (slide 11, allow time for response) “While earlier pointillist works used oil paints, Daigh uses a modern item to create work. Notice the colored dots on the cork board? This shows him where to put the pushpins. For his artistic process he uses photographs as drafis like Chuck Close, but Daigh uses a computer software to choose where to lay out the red yellow, blue, white and black, and then grids it to scale-up to his canvas; a corkboard. This piece is about 13ft long; his work is also large so that the dots can resemble blending " Lawen N. Granola Page 40fCheck for Understanding “The artistic process for each of these artists before they started on their work has included some type of drafting.” Write the following on the board Pointillistic artist draft to... + Have base-print to work from + Scale their work «See how to place the dots to achieve ef fective blending “Effective blending, means the dots blend to the effect the artist wants. Remember each artist used different styles to suit their particular visions” Demonstration/Modeling Behavior “We are going to borrow some of their artistic processes of drafting to experiment with poinillism. We will use some pictures and alter them in different ways to see the different effects of different poimtllism styles, using different dot color, sizes, and spacing variations” Write the following on the board Experiment with different DOT. color size spacing “With the color, considered which colors will help the dots blend to colors you want to achieve. Maybe you want to use primary colors to blend into secondary colors? With the size of the dots consider how much detail you want to achieve, and what texture you want to achieve. Maybe you want your figures fo be smooth. With spacing consider how solid you want you figures to look. May with more space between the dots, the background color can show through and cause an interesting effect. Just experiment, nothing is right and nothing is is wrong. Seurat's creativity with pointillism, inspired others to be creative. Find out what is interesting to you."” Demonstrate how to use both websites, show them the different ways to play around with the functions hutp:/ hutps/ photo ae r2/links/pointillator.html Lauren N. Graniela Page Sot6Independent Practice (30-40mins) Depending on the resources available, and number of students, the students may take their own pictures, and upload those to play with on the website: http://www. photo-kal i ai Another consideration may be to rotate “centers” -Some students take pictures (subject: nature, outside) to later upload on http:/Awww.photo-kako.com/en/pointillism.cei -Some students upload photos pre-chosen and pre-saved on the computers OR. -Some students play with the pointillator on: http://ineredibleart.org/links/pointillator html Closure “Georges Seurat’s creative use of pointillism inspired others to find their own creative ways to use pointillism. For our next lesson in the unit, we will use what learned about pointillism and apply it to an important issue our world is facing” Lauren N, Graniela Page 6 of 6