Pointillism

While reflecting on the neo-impressionistic era and it's techniques, in 1st grade art class, all students were told to create an original work utilizing the pointillism technique. Pointillism is a technique in which dots of unmixed color are juxtaposed on a white ground so that from a distance they fuse in the viewer's eye into appropriate intermediate tones. After an explanation of the pointillism technique was given, an example was shown, Seurat's " Sunday on La Grande Jatte", to reference while working.

I decided to create an image of a vase that held a single stem which branched into several flower buds and blooms. I made use of the colors red, yellow and green. Though this was not technically a work that truly utilized pointillism, as use of pure colors is a defining factor, the end result did resemble it closely.

My teacher loved my original creation so much that, with my consent, she decided it was worthy of submission into a local art contest. Weeks later I was informed that my creation placed in the contest and that it was to be on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art for two weeks.