The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus, and Sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte. This type of painting, using synergistic color mixing, and made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.
Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.
