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Neo Impressionism –

Color Theory and Luminous Effects in Art

20412 Hyewon Yeom

H ave you eve r se en
a painting like this? It’s
composed of seemingly
infinite colored dots.
You can see these kind
of paintings in the Neo-
Impressionist painting era.
Then, how were these
artists able to draw in such
a unique way? The answer
lies in Impressionism.
Impressionism is a 19th-
cent ury art movement
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
by George Pierre Seurat characterized by relatively
small, thin, yet visible brush
strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate description of light in its changing
qualities. The Impressionists, who got their name from one of Claude Monet's paintings,
were interested in the effects of light. They rejected the traditional rules of academic
painting. Usually painters in that time drew portraits, still life, and indoor landscape.
These impressionists tried to paint realistic scenes in modern life. They tried to capture
the momentary and temporary effects of sunlight. They drew these visual effects and
small details using short, broken brush strokes with mixed and unmixed colors instead of
blending smoothly or shading. They drew
brush strokes on the canvas and let the
viewer's eye do the mixing of colors. The
representative impressionist of his time
is Monet. He drew the paintings outside
to capture the effects of the constantly
changing atmosphere and used lively colors
and quick brush strokes to capture the
texture of the subject and the impact of light
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
on its surface.
La Grande Jatte by Claude Monet

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