This painting has no brush strokes — it is made from over 2,000,000 individual dots of colour.
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 14, 2025
And although it looks like nothing more than a sunny afternoon in Paris, it has a much darker hidden meaning… pic.twitter.com/SmdQ5sTL7I
This style was called Pointillism in reference to its many points of colour.
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 14, 2025
Rather than the blurred brush-strokes of Impressionism, here we have a canvas of carefully calculated, uniformly-sized dots.
Hence the strange, vibrating solidity of Pointillist art. pic.twitter.com/77B34yixD6
But we shouldn't be surprised, because Pointillism as an art style was directly based on the pioneering work of scientists and mathematicians that challenged long-held beliefs about the nature of light and colour.
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) April 14, 2025
Pointillism was an attempt to be scientifically truthful. pic.twitter.com/lRUW4kgO91

