Lesson 6 Art in Our Lives
The Art of Dots
Have you ever zoomed in on ____ photo on your computer screen?
If not, take a look at the image ____
When we look at the entire flower, it ____ to have a gradual change in shade.
Now, zoom in on the edge of the ____
You can see that it consists of many square dots with distinct colors and ____
Each tiny square dot ____ called a pixel.
Each pixel emits one of the three primary colors of light: ____ green, or blue.
Nonetheless, when viewing digital images, we can perceive secondary colors, such as yellow, ____ and magenta, as well.
These secondary colors are produced ____ putting primary colors next to each other.
When equal amounts of red pixels and green pixels are put together, ____ perceive them as yellow.
Likewise, people perceive the combination of blue and green pixels as cyan, and the combination of red and blue pixels ____ magenta.
Take the yellow bell pepper on the screen as ____ example.
We perceive the bell pepper as yellow, but if you look at it closely, there are a lot of ____ and green pixels next to each other.
The idea of using dots to ____ another color is not new.
Long before digital images were invented, French artists Georges Seurat and Paul ____ used a similar technique to paint their artworks in the 1880s.
They were influenced by the color theory ____ French scientist had developed at the time.
They did not use traditional brushstrokes to ____ paint on the canvas.
Instead, they used ____ dots of individual colors to create an image.
____ technique is called Pointillism.
The idea behind it is that when numerous dots of separate colors are placed next to each other, and then viewed ____ 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 ____ Pointillism.
It portrays people looking at the river, reading books, or sitting ____ the grass.
We can see some animals including a dog and a monkey ____ well.
____ grass on which the shade falls is painted dark.
However, other areas without shadow ____ painted bright.
This sharp contrast is ____ impressive.
This work is a representative work ____ Pointillism.
It is mostly painted with dots ____ of dashes or lines.
If you look closer, you will notice ____ there are no object boundary lines.
It also has multiple distinct colors of dots to represent a ____ 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 ____ variety of different colored dots.
However, when ____ from a distance, the dots of various colors optically merge to produce brown.
In ____ process of creating this work, Seurat kept studying color composition, analyzing it, and revising this work.
It took ____ two years to produce this huge piece because he arranged every single dot with purpose and intention.
Since he created art using color theory, Seurat is known as a scientific ____
He himself also said, “Some ____ they see 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 ____ Paul Signac, a contemporary of Seurat.
In this work, two ____ are drawing water from a well with a container.
Behind the women are a lighthouse and boats in ____ ocean.
This artwork portrays a hot sunny day in southern France through the ____ of yellow sand and blue ocean.
Upon closer inspection, all the ____ in the picture are composed of small dots.
____ is worth noting that Signac did not simply paint the grass green by combining yellow and blue.
Rather, he placed separate dots of yellow, blue, and ____ next to each other.
Viewers then perceive the combination of these ____ as green.
Signac ____ the proportions of these colors to create the various shades of green.
The era of Pointillism came to an end after the first half of ____ twentieth century.
However, this new ____ scientific method of painting had a great influence on later art groups.
Modern artists have adopted the basic concept of dots and applied it to their works in a variety of ____ and forms.