Chromoluminarism

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Sunday Afternoon on the Island La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat, 1884–1886

oil on canvas

207.6 × 308 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

Main article: Neo-Impressionism

Chromoluminarism, also known as Divisionism, is a technique used by Neo-Impressionists such as Georges Seurat (1859-1891). The technique involves breaking color into its basic elements, painting in very small and regular dots. From a distance the multiple dots form an optical mixture of color. The best known example is Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886).

Most television and computer screens operate in a similar way.

Another, similar, variety of Neo-Impressionism is pointillism, which involves painting in dots, though not necessarily with the aim of breaking color.

[edit] References

• Westphal, Ruth, Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland, Westphal Publishing ISBN 0-9610520-0-7.

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