Instead of mixing paint colors on a palette, what happens if we let our eyes do the mixing? Learn about Pointillism and how the artist Georges Seurat used the science of optics to create a whole new way of painting!
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Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), ca. 1887-88.
Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris).
Oil on canvas, 39 1/4 x 59 in. (99.7 x 149.9 cm).
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 (61.101.17)
Modern chromatics : with applications to art and industry, 1879.
Author Ogden Nicholas Rood (1831–1902).
3 pages, 1 leaf, [v]-viii, [9]-329 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams ; Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm).
(170.1 R674)
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