pointillism

Pointillism is a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye. It was developed by Georges Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of color.

The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the color spots into a fuller range of tones.

French Post-Impressionist painter Georges Pierre Seurat spent over two years creating his beautiful, and probably best-known, painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. An early example of pointillism, Seurat finished the piece, which is estimated to consist of approximately 3,456,000 dots, in the late 1880s.