"Creating Art & Music" is an introductory course designed to introduce creative activities in the context of art and music. Thus far the course has been taught at the middle school, high school, community college, and university level (with appropriate adaptations for each level). Each week this fall, students in the course are posting their projects in this strand of the Snap! forum. Here's a link to the course materials:
This week's module is titled "Simulating an Impressionist Painting". In it, we will expand on the work we did in the last module to look at ways in which we can use Snap! to create art in the style of painters like Georges Seurat, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Vincent van Gogh.
Figure 1:
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat (1884-1886)
Figure 2:
Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat by Vincent van Gogh (1887-1888)
Neo-Impressionism is a term coined to in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by French painter Georges Seurat. Around this time, France was entering a more modern era, and painters were in search of new methods. Neo-Impressionists in particular were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as to landscapes and seashores. Their interpretations of lines and colors were interpreted as much by science as by art, and they often employed Pointillist and Divisionist techniques in their work.
Some argue that Neo-Impressionism became the first avante-garde movement in painting. At the time, it was seen as an anarchistic attempt to combine optical properties of light with emerging theories of psychology to combine opposite ideas: the ideal and the realistic; the concrete and the ephemeral; (as it was seen at the time) science and art.
Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte Explained (10 min)
Art in Context: The History of Pointillism (Article)
The assignment for this week is to create a work of art inspired by the art discussed this week. You will build a program that converts a photograph into a neo-impressionist image. The program should collect color data from the original image and then use that to re-interpret it, producing a neo-impressionist interpretation of the original
Save your program to the cloud, share it so that others will be able to access it, and then post the link as a reply in this strand.
Please provide contextual information for your project, letting us know if there are any particular artists or aspects of neo-impressionism that inspired your work.
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