Lesson 6 Art in Our Lives
The Art of Dots
____ you ever zoomed in on a photo on your computer screen?
If not, take a ____ at the image below.
When we look at the entire flower, it appears to have a gradual ____ in shade.
Now, ____ in on the edge of the flower.
You can see that it consists of many square dots with distinct ____ and tones.
Each tiny square dot is called a ____.
Each pixel emits one of the three primary colors of ____: 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 ____ by putting primary colors next to each other.
When equal amounts of red pixels and green pixels are put ____, people perceive them as yellow.
Likewise, people perceive the combination of blue and green pixels as ____, and the combination of red and blue pixels as magenta.
Take the yellow bell pepper on the ____ as an 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 ____ 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 did not use traditional ____ to put paint on the canvas.
____, they used tiny dots of individual colors to create an image.
This ____ is called Pointillism.
The idea behind it is that ____ numerous dots of separate colors are placed next to each other, and then viewed 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 ____ on the Island of La Grande Jatte was created by Georges Seurat, the pioneer of Pointillism.
It portrays people looking at the ____, reading books, or sitting on the grass.
We can see some animals including a dog and a monkey as ____.
The grass on which the shade falls is painted ____.
However, other ____ without shadow are painted bright.
This ____ contrast is pretty impressive.
This ____ is a representative work of Pointillism.
It is mostly painted with dots instead of ____ or lines.
If ____ look closer, you will notice that there are no object boundary lines.
It ____ has multiple distinct colors of dots to represent a single color, which adds more vibrancy to the painting.
Take a look at a part of the monkey from the ____ picture.
Its body is made up of a variety of different ____ dots.
However, when viewed from a distance, the dots of ____ colors optically merge to produce brown.
In the process of creating this ____, Seurat kept studying color composition, analyzing it, and revising this work.
It took him two years to produce this huge piece because he arranged ____ single dot with purpose and intention.
____ he created art using color theory, Seurat is known as a scientific artist.
He himself also said, “Some say they see ____ 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 ____, a contemporary of Seurat.
In this work, ____ individuals are drawing water from a well with a container.
Behind the ____ are a lighthouse and boats in the ocean.
This artwork ____ a hot sunny day in southern France through the contrast of yellow sand and blue ocean.
Upon closer inspection, all the ____ in the picture are composed of small dots.
It is worth noting that Signac did not simply paint the grass ____ by combining yellow and blue.
Rather, he placed separate dots of yellow, blue, and green next to ____ other.
Viewers then ____ the combination of these colors as green.
Signac changed the proportions of these colors to ____ the various shades of green.
The era of Pointillism came to an end after the ____ half of the twentieth century.
____, this new and scientific method of painting had a great influence on later art groups.
Modern ____ have adopted the basic concept of dots and applied it to their works in a variety of shapes and forms.