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I'm really into pointillism right now.

#pointillism #pointillismdrawing #pointillismi #drawing #piirustus #muste #tussi #ink #humanart #rain #sade #raindrops #kyynel #magic #fantasyart #artlover #finnishartist #taide #suomitaiteilijat #suomalainen #inkdrawing #arttherapy #creativity #sadness #tears #emotions

A pointillism ink drawing of a woman crying in rain in water

Dirty window sunset (from a bus that’s been spattered with too much road salt)

#sunset #pointillism

2025年6月の油絵の完成形①

ピンクの薔薇

2025年制作
油絵具使用
F3号サイズ　27.3×22.0(たて、よこ、cm)

お知り合いのリクエストで、以前描いた水彩画をもとに油絵で描きました。後ろの壁には薔薇の影が投影されています。美しい薔薇の花は絵にすると枯れないけど、その光をまとった美しさを表現するのはなかなか難しいですね。

#油絵 #油絵の具流し #点描 #oilpainting #pointillism #flowers #花の絵

WIP Vineyard at Dawn in Fog Oil on Canvas 12" x 18"

This has been sitting around almost finished for quite a while! Finally getting back to work on it.

#oilpainting #pointillism #impressionism #landscape #landscapepainting #contemporaryrealism #portugal #dawn #fog #wip #artistinportugal #jonathankeeton

work in progress pointillist oil painting of a vineyard in ribatejo portugal in the fog at sunrise

DITHERING

@raumstadtion

#rheinmain #hessen #Germany #deutschland #fascade #fassade #pattern #raster #wald #forest #dither #dithering #pattern #pointillism #pointilismus #punkt #punkte #points #blackandwhite #schwarzweiss #blackwhite #art #artwork #kunst #arte #photo #foto #photography #fotografie #patternphotography #fotografia #raumstadtion

Die Aufnahme zeigt einen Ausschnitt einer künstlerisch gestalteten Fassadenverkleidung, die durch ein markantes Spiel mit Geometrie, Licht und Schatten besticht.

Die Linienstruktur ist ein Muster aus tiefschwarzen Kreisen (Punkten). Das Design erinnert stark an einen Halbton-Effekt (Dithering), wie man ihn aus dem Zeitungsdruck oder der Pop-Art kennt.

Die Punkte variieren stark in ihrem Durchmesser. Während einige Bereiche sehr große, fast überlappende schwarze Flächen aufweisen, werden die Punkte in anderen Abschnitten kleiner.

Die Aufnahme spielt mit den Kontrasten. Das harte Schwarz der Punkte setzt sich extrem deutlich von den hellen, horizontalen Streifen ab. Es entstehen dadurch Moiré-ähnliche Effekte.

Visual description

The image shows a detail of an artistically designed facade cladding, which captivates through a striking interplay of geometry, light, and shadow.

The linear structure consists of a pattern of deep black circles (dots). The design strongly evokes a halftone effect (dithering), reminiscent of newspaper print or Pop Art.

The dots vary significantly in diameter. While some areas feature very large, almost overlapping black surfaces, the dots become smaller in other sections.

The photograph plays with contrast: the stark black of the dots stands out sharply against the bright horizontal stripes, creating moiré-like effects.

“Early modern society created – and we have inherited – that paradoxical thing: a tradition of radical innovation”*…

Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (source)

A University of Chicago economist with a specialty in the economics of creativity, David Galenson, with an argument that the Impressionists contributed more than their works to the story of art…

Since the 1960s the art world has become accustomed to the arrival of startling new works by contemporary artists, from Yves Klein’s anthropometries created by nude models covered with blue paint, Piero Manzoni’s canned feces, and Andy Warhol’s silkscreened portraits, through Andres Serrano’s crucifix in urine, Damien Hirst’s sectioned animals in formaldehyde, and Tracey Emin’s soiled bed, to Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana. Yet few art experts understand that these radical works are only the most recent consequences of a fundamental change in the structure of art markets that occurred more than a century ago. And the artists who initiated this change are today so venerated that few people realize how radical they were in their own time…
Art historians have long recognized that a radical change occurred in the appearance of fine art during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries, but they have failed to explain why this happened when it did. The answer lies in a change in the structure of the market for art, initiated by Claude Monet and a small group of his friends. The Impressionist group exhibitions of 1874–86 effectively ended the official Salon’s monopoly of the ability to certify artists as qualified professionals, and began a new regime in which small independent group exhibitions competed for attention. The result was a new era of artistic freedom, as painters no longer had to satisfy the conservative Salon jury, and new styles challenged for leadership of the art world. The heightened demand for originality favored conceptual artists, who could innovate conspicuously and decisively. So ironically, Monet and his fellow experimental Impressionists came under attack from the supporters of Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, and other young conceptual artists. The growing independence of private galleries, which further contributed to fostering competition, would allow Matisse, Picasso, and their peers to consolidate this revolution early in the next century. And the products of this perpetual revolution have included such later works as Warhol’s silkscreened portraits, Hirst’s sectioned animals, and Cattelan’s duct-taped banana. Art historians have described the transformation of modern art in great detail, but have failed to recognize the causal role of economic forces, as the shift from monopsony to a competitive market gave artists a new freedom to innovate, and made the modern era a time of continuing radical innovation…

Fascinating: “Marketing modern art: how the impressionists started a perpetual revolution,” from @jcultecon.bsky.social.

Bay Area readers can peek at the process in motion at The MFA’s Legion of Honor in the “Manet & Morisot” exhibition, up through March 1.

* Kirk Varnedoe

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As we divvy up the difference, we might send avant-garde birthday greetings to a beneficiary of this emergent cultural mechanism, Francis Picabia; he was born on this date in 1879. A French avant-garde painter, poet, and typographist, Picabia experimented with Impressionism and Pointillism before becoming a Cubist. He then became one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France, and was later briefly associated with Surrealism.

See his work at the record of a major retrospective hung at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2017 on their web site.