POINTILLISM

Pointillism was a pictoral style that eerged in France in 1884 from post-impressionism. His technique consists in apply on the convas small dots of colours primary colours that are agreed and looked at from a different distance, it form in the eye a special efect.

Like post-impressionists, pointillism used nature as a motif but with a more cientific rigor from ideas of the critic and scholar of light Charles Blanc.

The main promoter and representative of pictoral pointillism was the french painter Georges Seaurat (1859-1891), who in 1884 founded the Société des Artistes Independants. There he become friends with Paul Signac, who shared pointillism ideas and techniques with him. He made his masterprice, "Tarde de Domingo en la isla de la tarde Jette".