Curated OER
Pointillism Technique Using Ink Dabbers
A gumball machine art project is a great way to learn about optical mixing in a study of pointillism and Georges Seurat. Kids create their own masterpieces and learn about primary and secondary colors in the process.
Oglebay Institute
Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh Drawings
Turn your young artists into little Vincent van Goghs with a lesson on brush stroke style and color blending. Pupils practice the painting technique by sketching various shapes before recreating a van Gogh piece or creating an original...
Art Institute of Chicago
Color Combinations
Explore color through an examination of pointillism and light. Class members view Georges Seraut's famous painting on a computer, zooming in and out to see the details and effects of the technique. They then cover how light and color are...
Incredible Art
Painting with Dots - Kirkland Style
Pointillism is the focus of a lesson that asks young artists to compare Vance Kirkland's painting style with aboriginal dot art, and then to produce their own piece of dot art.
Curated OER
Pixel Drawings
Middle and high schoolers re-create a magazine photo or other picture and make it into a drawing using pixels. This fun art project should be a hit with your charges! The materials needed to implement the lesson should be easy to get,...
Oglebay Institute
Post-Impressionism: Mosaic Still-life
A still life with tissue paper? Why not! Using Paul Cézanne's art as inspiration, learners create their own still life pictures by gluing various colors of tissue paper onto a paper or pattern.
Oglebay Institute
Post-Impressionism: Pointillism
How can little dots in two colors make a third color? Experiment with pointillism and color mixing with a series of activities. After viewing paintings by Seurat and watching a teacher demonstration, pupils create samples of three...
Curated OER
Q-tip Pointillism
Learners discover artist Georges Seurat and his technique of Pointillism and create Pointillist examples using Q-Tips and watercolors in this exciting multi-level art lesson. This lesson can be adapted for various grade levels and...
Curated OER
Dot To Dot Seurat
Students discuss the art of Georges Seurat and examples of Pointillism and create original works of Pointillism using colored, sticker dots. This lesson is intended for use in the elementary Art classroom and includes a short vocabulary...
Curated OER
Finger Fun
Students study the art forms of printmaking and pointillism. They create a picture using their hands and fingers to create shapes and sizes. They add detail to create characters. They discuss their pictures as a class.
Curated OER
Exploring Rembrandt's Chiaroscuro Technique Through Mosaic Design
Students compare mosaic design and pointillism. They discover the meaning of chiaroscuro by creating paper mosaic designs in Rembrandt style.
Curated OER
Learning About Pointillism
Pupils read a biography about George Seurat and examine the Pointillism style of painting. They create Pointillism style paintings of apples and consider how the viewer's eye mixes color in the interpretation of the painting.
Curated OER
Dot To Dot Seurat
Students explore the style of art known as pointillism and the artist (Georges Seurat) who created it.
Curated OER
Fine Arts
In this fine arts worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms and artists of the visual arts. There are 54 terms and/or names located in the puzzle.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Georges Seurat: The Drawings
A full-featured exhibition of the drawings of nineteenth-century French master Georges Seurat. Includes upclose looks at the artist's sketchbooks-rare primary source documents-and details about his subject choices and working methods....
The Wharton Group
Discover France: Vincent Van Gogh
This biography of van Gogh expresses his life as one who was important in the formation of Fauvism and expressionism.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Georges Seurat
The WebMuseum offers a biography of Georges Seurat (1859-1891 CE), known for his creation of the Pointillism technique of 19th century neo-impressionist painting. Content includes numerous samples of his work, as well as full...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Georges Seurat
Resource provides a brief biography of Georges Seurat, founder of the neo-impressionist movement with his new technique of pointillism.
Quia
Quia: Art Movements Impressionism
Ten questions for students to answer by going on a scavenger hunt through various museum websites.
New York Times
New York Times: George Seurat: The Drawings
A video slide show of George Seurat's drawings: "Woman Reading in the Studio," "Tree by a Road," "Lighthouse at Honfleur," "Pierre and Colombine," "Drawbridge," "The Ragpicker," "Antique Statue, Satyr With Goat," and others. Narrator...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Paul Signac
This site from the WebMuseum of ibiblio.org provides a biography of a neoimpressionist and pointilist, Paul Signac, who worked with artist Georges Seurat Includes images of his artwork.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: "La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat
A short essay on Seurat's famous "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." This essay discusses whether this painting is a statement in anti-impressionism or, in fact, a natural progression of the movement's ideas. Interesting...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Dot to Dot Seurat
KinderArt shows how pointillism can be a very creative way to paint. It involves dots, color mixing and divisionism. Students will be enriched by this method created by Georges Seurat.