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