Title: Watercolor Painting On Paper Transformation Artist Christopher Barr
Shipping: $100.00
Artist: N/A
Period: Contemporary
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Origin: North America > United States
Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 3-10-10
Item ID: 3132
A Painting by the artist Christopher Barr: This 11x14 original is the first from the career of the artist Christopher Barr. It is drawn in the pointillist style with pen and ink on watercolor paper. All materials used are archival quality. 84 hours of work and just over 1 million dots make up this piece of art. The stunning detail and overall softness are qualities that can only truly be appreciated in person.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism
Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term Pointillism was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.
The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones and is related closely to Divisionism, a more technical variant of the method. Divisionism is concerned with color theory, where pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint.[1] It is a technique with few serious practitioners and is notably seen in the works of Seurat, Signac and Cross.
Paul Signac, Femmes au Puits, 1892, showing a detail with constituent colours.
The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the more common methods of blending pigments on a palette or using the many commercially available premixed colors. Pointillism is analogous to the four-color CMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses, Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Key (black). Televisions and computer monitors use a pointillist technique to represent images but with Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.
Neuroplasticity is a key element of observing a pointillistic image. While two individuals will observe the same photons reflecting off a photorealistic image and hitting their retinas, someone whose mind has been primed with the theory of pointillism will see a very different image as the image is interpreted in the visual cortex.[2]Dennis, Dawson. "Pointilism Practice Page!." Epcomm. 2,7, 2000 . Enlightened Path Communications, Web. 9 Feb 2010
