Learning by doing. Arts&English for young students

Dots, lines, shapes and textures

by Sara Pantoja

DOTS

These are paintings created with dots. Pointillism is a type of painting that was done by putting different color of dots together. Georges Seruat was the first one to develope the technique of pointillism in 1886.

This is a painting by Henri Edmond Cross. It is called “Giudecca Canal”. 

 It is a neo-impressionist painting.  

   

This is a painting byTheo Van Rysselberg. The name of this painting is “Canal in Flanders”. It was painted in 1894.

LINES

“Angst” by Edvard Munch. This painting called anxiety was painted in 1894.

 

“Wheatfield with cypresses” is one of three similar 1889 paintings by Vincent van Gogh. All were painted at the Saint-Rémy mental asylum where he was patient at that time.

 

 

TEXTURES