- Chromoluminarism
Infobox Painting|
title=Sunday Afternoon on the Island La Grande Jatte
artist=Georges Seurat
year=1884 –1886
type=oil on canvas
height=207.6
width=308
museum=Art Institute of Chicago Chromoluminarism, also known as Divisionism, is a technique used by Neo-Impressionists such as
Georges Seurat (1859-1891). The technique involves breakingcolor 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 colour.Italian Divisionist painters include
Giovanni Segantini ,Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo ,Emilio Longoni ,Vittore Grubicy de Dragon ,Luigi Russolo ,Gaetano Previati ,Angelo Morbelli ,Filippo Carcano ,Plinio Nomellini andAlessio Di Lernia .References
*Westphal, Ruth, "Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland", Westphal Publishing "ISBN 0-9610520-0-7".mike skywinkhi
External links
* [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/radicallight/default.htm Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891-1910]
* [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/radicallight/slideshow/default.htm Radical Light: Paintings from the Exhibition]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/07/art.art Tim Parks on divisionist movement of painters in Italy]
* [http://www.minusspace.com/chronology1900-1909.htm Chronology of related art fields in the 1900s] List discusses Divisionism
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