Key words
Pointillism
Questions to ask
Do you get the impression that the empty sky is just as important as the land in this image? If so, why?
Do you think that this image will change depending on how close you are to it when you are looking at it? Do you prefer looking at it close up or from far away?
Study the subject matter of the painting, thinking in particular about contrasts. Do you think the different elements of the painting work well together?
How this might inspire your work
Create a pointillist landscape using pastels by repetitiously dotting colours onto paper to fill up areas.
Draw the outline of simple landscape, ensuring that you include background, middle ground and foreground. Using pastels and a dotting technique, slowly fill up the individual areas of the image. Work on each area firstly with darker tones of a particular colour, then work up over the top, using lighter tones of that same colour.
To create different effects in the image, try smudging certain areas, for example parts of the sky.
Flagstaff and Crane, Blackwater oil on canvas 1948 by Elliot Seabrooke (1886-1950).
In this oil landscape we see a brick-built building flanking the inlet of a broad waterway. A tall flagpole stands in the centre of the image on a grass-grown promontory, a crane behind it at the water’s edge.
Seabrooke travelled widely in England and abroad and this may reflect the European influences on his work, at first Cezanne and later Italian Futurism and, as in this example, Pointillism. Elliot Seabrooke was born in Essex and trained at the Slade School of Art. As well as being an accomplished painter he was also a well-known actor.
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, purchased by Edward le Bas 1951
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