Examples of Pointillism

Pointillism Examples:

A lot of famous pointillism was done by Georges-Pierre Seurat.

La Tour Eiffel (1889)

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884)

The Lighthouse at Honfleur (1886)

About Gray Weather (1888)

Circus Sideshow (1888)

Can-Can (1889-1890)

Another is by Henri-Edmond Cross.

L'Air du Soir (1893-1894)

I used this site to find these: http://www.ranker.com/list/pointillism-art-and-artwork/reference

New Research

Today I've decided to research a topic off of my list that interests me. 

Research Topic: Pointillism

Past knowledge of the topic: I know that pointillism is the use of small dots to create a bigger picture. I can't think of the name of it but I know of a painting that is very famous and is used for pointillism. I learned about pointillism in either 7th or 8th grade (more likely 7th) and took a picture of my sister to turn into a pointillism picture. It was a difficult way of doing art in my opinion. It takes a lot of time and precision to create art like that, I know from experience. I can't imagine how hard it is to do it for a real painting, as opposed to a marker drawing in art class.

RESEARCH

What is Pointillism?: "The theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together" (Merriam Webster).

Example of Pointillism: 

The painting to the right is called Sunday on La Grande Jatte. It was created by George Seurat, and became one of his most famous works. This is the painting that I had seen before. I was taught about pointillism using this piece of art.While it may look like a completely whole picture, if you look closely at it every bit of the picture is created with small dots. The picture here takes a closer look at a woman from the painting, near the ground where her skirt ends. You can see all of the miniature points that make up the skirt.

I'll update this soon and post more of what I find ASAP.
-Shannon

Progressing through the new plan

So, as I said last time I wrote on here, I've come up with a new plan.
Around two days ago I looked up eras and time periods in art. I found two links that seemed to have an accurate list of time periods, at least as a base. I'm going to look into them all.
Here are the links to the site with lists of eras:
-http://www.historyofpainters.com/movement.htm
-http://arthistory.about.com/cs/reference/a/art_history_one.htm
From these I created a table with five columns (Time Period/ Culture, Description of the time period, Major Events During that Time/ for that culture, Tools Used, and Subject of Art). In that table I'll be recording what I find about each time period so that I can compare it all later.
I believe that's it... I'm off to begin my research now. I'll post what I find soon.

Review of Links

Today I started looking at the links that I posted yesterday.
Starting with the first link on the list, I found that it had pretty much nothing to offer for me. It was a link to the Art History department at Chicago University, but no information was provided and I couldn't really do  research there.
The moment I clicked on the second link I realized that it was the same art history department at Chicago University, so that was no help.
The third link looks very useful. It's a list of resources for different periods and cultures of art history. I'm definitely going to look back at it.
The fourth link was about.com. I'm not exactly sure why I put that on there, but it does have catagorized art so I may use it as something to look at but not to exactly take as research.
The fifth link was a website that doesn't look very reliable. Again I may look into it but I'm not sure if I can take it seriously.
The sixth link looks like it will help out a lot. It's a time line of art history. It could be perfect.
The seventh link again looks helpful. This one seems more like I would be looking at art instead of reading, which could allow for me to create my own interpretations of it.
The eighth link is to University of Michigan, the school of art and design. It interests me because it seems like school that I'd like to go to. It also has information that could be useful.
The ninth link is a list of other websites about art history. Again, could be useful.
The tenth link is another college, and doesn't seem to have anything interesting or helpful to me. It seems to be more aimed towards students there.
The eleventh link is a library book. I don't even know why I put that on there. It could be useful if it was actually the library that I went to. Really where was my mind that day?
The twelth link looks helpful.
The thirteenth and final link is another university website.
So, for my own reference, these are links that I need to look back at:

http://arthistory.about.com/
www.arthistory.net
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/
http://www.umich.edu/~motherha/
www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/art-history
www.huntfor.com/arthistory/

Links

At the beginning of the year I made a list of links that applied to 'art history'. I realized that I should probably post them here, so this blog is going to be links that I have. I'm not sure that they are all relevent, but here they are:

-http://arthistory.uchicago.edu/

-http://gradadmissions.uchicago.edu/academics_research/programs/art_phd/

-http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html

-http://arthistory.about.com/

-http://www.arthistory.net/

-http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

-http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

-http://www.umich.edu/~motherha/

-http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/art-history

-http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/

-http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8365

-http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/

-http://www.uic.edu/depts/arch/ah/welcome.shtml

Animation

I want to start by apologizing for not blogging for so long. I've been busy, to the point where I don't have time for much of anything but homework and family. 
I got sick last week. All week long. I know that isn't much of an excuse considering the technology I have but I find it very hard to motivate myself when I feel the way that I did. Again, sorry.
So now, to the point of this blog.

I have decided on another way to contribute to our project, with the help of my group members.
I am now embarking on a journey to learn the history of animation! (Hooray.)
Along with the history of airplanes and flying things (which interests me very little and seems like it would occupy about a week before it ran out of information) I will be looking into the first types of animating and cartoons. We will then incorperate it into our project by making ads for the jetpack. It seems like the only possible way to use animation and art history.
So there you go.

Now, what I've found so far:
Today I used wikipedia to get a general background on the subject I'm studying. I know that wikipedia isn't exactly reliable... but I think it would be beneficial to have some sort of idea what I'm getting into.
According to the page, animation dates back to the Paleolithic times, which is the time of the cavemen (I don't think cavemen is the correct term... but I'm not exactly an expert in prehistoric times so I'll go with it.) Looking at the drawings at the drawings that were done during that time, it is clear that some sort of animation was intended.

I think this picture found on a 5,200-year old bowl in Iran is interesting. The effort put into animating without the tools we have today is impressive.
Another example I found was the Anatomical Studies of the Muscles of the Neck, Shoulder, Chest, and Arm by Leonardo da Vinci, which is again an attempt at animation.


The problem with these attempts at simple animation is that they can't actually move. It's still interesting to look at what was put into animating in the very beginning.
I suppose I'm done blogging for now... I think I've written enough that anyone reading is thouroughly bored by what I find interesting. 
Overall I think looking to previous animation will help us out. Maybe I'll look at the history of ads and propaganda too  because I think it could help us find the most effective strategies. So that's it.
~Shannon