Analogous Illusions

Where did my basketball go????

Zoetrope

My part of this video is when it turns from a stick into a table.

Cubist Illustration

Pointillism

Photo Etching

Pointillism and Cubism Assignment 

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The terms Neo-impressionism and Divisionism are also terms used to describe this technique of painting.The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the color spots into a fuller range of tones. It is related to Divisionism, a more technical variant of the method. Divisionism is concerned with color theory, whereas pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint.

        The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the traditional methods of blending pigments on a palette. Pointillism is analogous to the four-color printing process used by some color printers and large presses that place dots of Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow, and Key (black). Televisions and computer monitors use a similar technique to represent image colors using red, green and blue.The painting technique used for pointillist color mixing is at the expense of the traditional brushwork used to delineate texture.The majority of pointillism is done in oil paints. Anything may be used in its place, but oils are preferred for their thickness and tendency not to run or bleed.
       Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.The beginnings of Cubism have been dated between 1907 and 1911. The question of when Cubism began depends on the questions of how it can be defined, what distinguishes Cubist art and who developed it first.  The influence of cubism extended to other artistic fields, outside painting and sculpture. In literature, the written works of Gertrude Stein employ repetition and repetitive phrases as building blocks in both passages and whole chapters.
    Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalise the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course. The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance.  Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age.
  I found it very interesting that in pointillism, for one of the paintings done by Georges Seurat.  It was very interesting that he was able to make a painting of a person while just using different color of dots.  For cubism, it was also very interesting how one artist was able to paint using cubism to make a painting of different types of musical instruments.  In Cubist artworks, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

http://msnovak.blogspot.com/2011/03/1st-grade-pointillism-lesson-2.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cube/hd_cube.htm