Lesson 6 Art in Our Lives
The Art of Dots
Have you ever zoomed in on a photo on your computer ____?
If not, ____ a look at the image below.
When we look at the entire flower, it appears to ____ a gradual change in shade.
Now, zoom in on the edge of the ____.
____ can see that it consists of many square dots with distinct colors and tones.
____ tiny square dot is called a pixel.
Each pixel emits one of the ____ primary colors of light: red, green, or blue.
Nonetheless, when viewing digital images, we can perceive secondary ____, such as yellow, cyan, and magenta, as well.
These secondary colors are produced by ____ primary colors next to each other.
When equal amounts of red ____ and green pixels are put together, people perceive them as yellow.
Likewise, people perceive the combination of blue and green pixels as cyan, and the ____ of red and blue pixels as magenta.
Take the yellow bell pepper on the screen as an ____.
We perceive the bell pepper as yellow, but if you look at it closely, ____ are a lot of red and green pixels next to each other.
The ____ of using dots to produce another color is not new.
Long before digital images were ____, French artists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac used a similar technique to paint their artworks in the 1880s.
They were influenced by the ____ theory a French scientist had developed at the time.
They ____ not use traditional brushstrokes to put paint on the canvas.
Instead, they used tiny dots of ____ colors to create an image.
This ____ is called Pointillism.
The idea behind it is that when numerous dots of separate colors are placed next to each other, and then ____ from a distance, they blend in the viewer’s eyes.
Let’s look at two examples of ____ style paintings.
A Sunday Afternoon
This work named A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was created by Georges Seurat, the pioneer of ____.
It portrays people looking at the ____, reading books, or sitting on the grass.
We can ____ some animals including a dog and a monkey as well.
The grass on which the shade falls is painted ____.
However, ____ areas without shadow are painted bright.
This sharp contrast is pretty ____.
This work is a representative work of ____.
It is mostly painted with dots ____ of dashes or lines.
If you look ____, you will notice that there are no object boundary lines.
It also has ____ distinct colors of dots to represent a single color, which adds more vibrancy to the painting.
____ a look at a part of the monkey from the original picture.
Its body is made up of a variety of different colored ____.
However, when viewed ____ a distance, the dots of various colors optically merge to produce brown.
In the process of creating this work, Seurat kept studying ____ composition, analyzing it, and revising this work.
It took him two years to produce this huge piece because he arranged every single dot with ____ and intention.
Since he created art using color theory, Seurat is ____ as a scientific artist.
He himself also said, “Some say they ____ poetry in my paintings; I see only science.”
Women at the Well
Now, let’s look at another Pointillist painting, Women at the Well, painted in 1892 by Paul Signac, a ____ of Seurat.
In this work, two ____ are drawing water from a well with a container.
Behind the ____ are a lighthouse and boats in the ocean.
This artwork portrays a hot sunny day in southern France ____ the contrast of yellow sand and blue ocean.
Upon closer inspection, all the objects in the picture are composed of ____ dots.
It is ____ noting that Signac did not simply paint the grass green by combining yellow and blue.
Rather, he placed separate ____ of yellow, blue, and green next to each other.
____ then perceive the combination of these colors as green.
Signac changed the proportions of these colors to create the various ____ of green.
The era of Pointillism came to an ____ after the first half of the twentieth century.
However, this new and scientific method of painting had a great influence on later art ____.
____ artists have adopted the basic concept of dots and applied it to their works in a variety of shapes and forms.