Pontilhismo: o que é, works and main artists

Or Pontilhismo, also known as Divisionism or Chromoluminism, was a movement that started from the Post-Impressionist (or Neo-Impressionist) period.

The painters who adotaram or Pontilhismo fizeram use of a technique onde inscreviam na small cloth pontos regulres feitos com cores primárias a fim que o spectator feels a mixture of cores na sua retina.

Os principais nomes do Pontilhismo são Georges Seurat (1859-1891) and Paul Signac (1863-1935). Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) also painted some paintings with the Pontic technique.

Or what is Pontilhismo

You começou when Georges Seurat (1859-1891), an exponent of Impressionism, começou seus pictures a Make experiments using small and regular brushstrokes (multicolored pontinhos), starting from a pattern regular.

The expectation was that either the human olho - the last instância or the brain - would mix the primary cores. Isto é, Seurat's idea was to create a painting where Do not mix the inks in palheta, but use primary colors in fabric, in small pontinhos,

and hope that the human olho reaches the cores that it proposes.

We see no Pontilhismo muitas exterior paints com special highlight for or effect gives sunlight present us quadros.

O Pontilhismo fazia use of uma extreme technique, meticulous, systematic and scientific.

When and where

O Pontilhismo (in French Pointillism) arose in France, between the XIX and XX century - to be more precise in the decades that ended the XIX century - and it counted with some few followers.

Or thermo painting of pontos (em francês peinture au point) was born by Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), a French art critic who commented on a series of works by Seurat and his contemporaries. Felix was a two major responsible for spreading this generation of artists.

Pontilhismo Technique

Starting from Impressionism, the artists went on to study and paint in nature - overtudo or effect of light - from light, light brushstrokes.

O Post-Impressionism followed a part of the style that had never been established, but instead using a different technique. Pontilhist painters, for example, will remain painting exterior landscaping, then leaving aside the light brushstrokes and favoring or using technique.

Concerned with the elaboração do quadro, the Pontilhista artists justapunham as primary cores year inverse of as mixed in palheta to depois as applied in fabric.

The Pontilhist painters were very influenced by the scientist Michel Chevreul (1786-1889) who published a book in 1839 as Read simultaneous contrast of cores (not genuine Loi du contrast simultane des couleurs).

The precursors of Pontilhismo foram Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863).

Main artists and works of Pontilhismo

Paul Signac (1863-1935)

Born on November 11, 1863, the French Paul Signac was two avant-garde painters who developed the technique of Pontilhism.

Or a breeder started a career as an architect, but a logo depois left a prancheta to dedicate exclusively to visual arts.

In 1884 he founded, together with some colleagues, the Salon des Indépendants, where he knew or also a painter Seurat. Doi ao side of Seurat who created or pontilhismo.

As criações de Signac we especially portrayed paisagens da costa europeia, with a representation of boats, cais, banhistas, emphasized solar rays hair.

Uma curiosidade: apart from painting, Signac also wrote theoretical texts such as, for example, or livro From Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism (1899), in which he discusses specifically on Pontilhism.

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

A French painter born on December 2, 1859, is considered the founder of Neo-Impressionism. Já during the school Georges developed and, due to his interest in the arts, in 1875 he began to do a course as a sculptor Justin Lequien.

Three years later he entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he painted over all portraits and models. During this course he developed a special interest in scientific questions in art, having been greatly influenced by David Sutter (who combined music and mathematics).

Long year of his brief career he dedicated himself to painting especially landscapes - and quentes landscapes (with special attention to the presence of two effects of the sun on or off). Georges Seurat was a disciple of Paul Signac.

The most famous work of Georges Seurat é A Sunday Afternoon on Ilha de Grande Jatte, painted between 1884 and 1886. An outside image portrays a weekend in the French island located in the Seine River and in the Art Institute of Chicago. Note especially the effect of light and shadow attached to the fabric.

A canvas illustrates a series of quite different personages: from soldiers to men, they were dressed as umbrellas and um cão.

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

One of the two most famous Dutch painters, Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 and was two most famous of post-impressionism.

With a complicated life history, Van Gogh has had a series of psychiatric crises, trying himself to be hospitalized.

Not a professional field, Van Gogh was extremely frustrated, having managed to sell just one square in his life. Quem ajudava or painter a semanter era or seu irmão mais novo de him, Theo.

Or the work of a Dutch painter went through countless phases. Van Gogh knew or painter Seurat em Paris and, we see in some of his works by him, or he undertakes the Pontilhista technique established by a French painter. In the case of a self-portrait painted in 1887:

Be like the artist, take advantage also to read or artigo The fundamental works of Van Gogh and his biography.

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Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).