It's 2 am
My dog's been doing #shit #pointillism art in the garden for about 8 hours now.
Can't call the vet I guess.
They're probably sleeping
I would like to get some sleep too
Instead I just read and retooted a long post about Virginia prisons where racist sadist guards abuse... #DOGS to suppress inmates
Bastards

Have to go outside now
My dog wants to finish the painting

"Women at the Well, Opus 238." Paul Signac, 1892.

I've talked about Signac before. While I'm not a huge fan of Pointillism, and I consider Seurat overrated (there, I said it, I expect people to unfollow me now), but his works have a certain appeal.

Here we have two ladies at a well overlooking the Mediterranean. This scene is just DRENCHED with sunlight; in fact, the yellowness of the grass hints that there might be a bit of a drought going on. Signac would spend half of each year at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, where his paintings sought to depict an ideal society. This was originally to have been part of a grander, sweeping canvas....but he decided the two ladies at the well were enough.

This is also a great example of "artistic license" as a concept. Most of the elements here do exist...the lighthouse, the well, the distant mountains, the citadel on a hill....but they don't exist together like this. But he put them together to make an idealized view. Kind of like putting the Washington Monument next to the Empire State Building in a picture...

Makes me think of summer...

From the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Abstract drawing.
G.

Pointillist dot patterns form an abstract shape, creating an intricate gnarled texture that seems to mimic a biological or geological form. The use of black dots on a white background highlights the complexity and depth of the design.

[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/abstract-gnarls-james-mccormack.html ]

Before artist Wassily Kandinsky's work went abstract, he was inspired by Pointillism, Fauvism, Russian folk tales, and color was of central importance to it. The paintings he did at the time are captivating and wonderfully imaginative.
#art #painting #pointillism #fauvism #folktales

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/kandinskys-world-russian-fairy-tales/

Original art

Pen on acid-free paper.

Created in 2013.

He comes with many names, yet, his true name is one that cannot be spoken by the human's tongue.

From his many known names, Azrael is one being loved more. He's one of the very kind mentors.

"Inside His embrace The Knowledge speaks. The Rule is to follow The Rule until the very last one."

Apple Harvest (1888) by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/apple-harvest-1888-camille-pissarro-1830-1903.html

'The last breath of a broken dream'

Inspired by my own study and research on the dark side of humans. This piece is one from domestic violence and abuse series.

The poem:

Silent tears, my last witness
This fortress is finally falling
My sin is to trust

Bath in my own red,
unmended wounds
My sin is to cry

To the whispers within the wind
I let go of my unspoken scars
May it speak for me
May it strangle all the wrong

"The Seine at Pont Saint-Michel," Maximilien Luce, 1900.

Luce (1858-1941) was a keen observer of city life and depicted the various social strata taking in an autumn afternoon.

Born to a working-class Paris family, he started as a wood engraver, then switched to painting, operating first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and then a Neo-Impressionist. You see some Impressionism here in capturing a moment in time, but also the Pointillism, especially in the trees.

An avowed anarchist, he was arrested on suspicion after the assassination of President Carnot in 1894; he spent 42 days in jail and later published a series of lithographs based on his experiences.

He gets a lot of respect in France, but here in the States he is not well known. Time for that to change.

From the Museum Barberini, Potsdam.

"Mountains from Montseny. A Calm Day in the Morning," Marià Pidelaserra, 1903.

Pidelaserra (1877-1946) is a bit unknown; I can't find much information about him (yes, HIM), except he was born in Barcelona, educated in Paris, but returned to Catalonia to paint landscapes like this.

Apparently he abandoned painting for a long time after this canvas, and some related ones, were rejected by critics. Too bad...it has aged very well.

From the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.

On my recent trip to Milano I came across an artist I hadn’t heard of before - Plinio Nomellini (1866 - 1943)
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
In 1889 he exhibited his works among those of Tuscan painters at the Universal Exhibition in Paris.
1891 marked a turning point for Nomellini, as the painter moved away from conventional teachings and enthusiastically embraced Divisionism, becoming one of its main exponents.

"Collioure, the Belltower, Opus 164," Paul Signac, 1887.

I've talked about Signac (1863-1935) before, so I wont go much into his biography, except to note that he was one of the developers of pointillism, a style where, instead of brushstrokes, the artist forms his image out of many tiny dots, like how television screens would operate in the future.

Georges Seurat is THE great pointillist, but honest, I don't care for most of his work; I find his handling of human beings clumsy and artificial. But that's a me thing. I'm not big on pointillism overall, but for Signac, I'll make some exceptions. He's done a few paintings I like that function well beyond being demonstrations of technique.

This charming scene is of the harbor of Collioure, on France's Mediterranean coast. That dramatic belltower was also once a lighthouse, which explains its position in the water. But it works well as a simple sun-drenched scene of the Mediterranean, which Signac loved and painted often.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

"Still Life with a Book and Oranges," Paul Signac, 1883.

Signac (1863-1935) was a post-Impressionist who developed the style of Pointillism with Seurat. He started off as an architecture student but when he saw a Monet exhibition in 1880, he abandoned it for art. This is one of his earlier works...amazing to think he was only twenty!

I'm usually not much for Pointillism, but I do appreciate his style here, which is more based on dashes than dots. This was a period when he was experimenting heavily with technique and material; I'm told artists like to use still lifes as a medium for experimentation.

SIgnac had a long and successful career as an artist, and was famous for his depictions of France's Mediterranean coast. An avowed anarchist, he had dreams of forming an anarchist utopia in the south of France; he would probably be appalled at what is there now. He also wrote a number of books on art history, theory, and technique, which are still influential today.

From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

New drawing of an inking #octopus. #cephalopod #pointillism #stippling #ink #drawing

"The Pink Cloud," Henri-Edmond Cross, c. 1896.

Artistically, Cross was a great experimenter, here working with pointillist technique, but he'd later go on to bolder brushstrokes and laying the groundwork for Fauvism. He experimented with color theory, and was also a political anarchist, whose works often showed Utopian worlds...like this one.

From the Cleveland Museum of Art.