Growing up in suburban Chicago in the 90's, my school art programs circled back again and again to Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte as THE example of pointalism, but that wasn't connected to art history more broadly.

I always got the impression that the painting is important here, in Chicago, because it hangs here in the Art Institute and thus is part of our civic treasures, along with the Daley Plaza Picasso, the Lamassu of Khorsabad, the U-505 submarine, and, later, Cloud Gate. Certainly, of those things, only Seurat's painting has been the subject of a musical (Sunday in the Park with George).

So, the question is, is "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" a significant painting to art history generally? Is Seurat a major influence on later painters? Is the painting shown to elementary school children in other places with no special connection to it?

i did this peice almost a year ago now and i just wanted to post it because i forgot about it honestly.

this is my third pointillism peice, done in 0.3 mm pens.

Hello! Please don't judge too much! I've recently got into Pointillism art and wanted to do a landscape on canvas using acrylic paint as I've got loads leftover from another project I did. I did an exercise using some marker pens to practice before moving onto paint but wanted advice on what I could do to improve?

How long would it take a person to complete a pointillism painting if they did a dot per day? One dot for one day out of their entire life.

and has anyone tried or any success in this weird idea? Sorry if seems out of pocket to ask I saw this is the pointillism reddit and thought that maybe someone has tried or also have this question thank you for your time and responds :)

Hello everyone!

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I would like to begin making another 18x24in Pointilism piece, as I've done with my previous three works. But I had a college color-theory professor who would select the colors exactly for us, and the results were always fantastic. Alas, since I have no contact with that professor anymore, I am looking for perspective from other artists of similar make!

Here are some previous pieces I've done (Metroid, Dead Space, Halo 2), and also the piece I want to do (Bioshock).

Please help!!!

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Hello! Does anyone know or heard of the song called, “What’s the point of pointillism?”? My boyfriend’s art teacher sang it to his class when he was a kid so around 2007 or something. We can’t find that song anywhere and wanted to ask if you guys heard of it.