The next artist we are studying is Georges Seurat. His "Big Idea" was to approach art in a scientific manner. He developed a painting style called Pointillism. The technique being to paint two dots of color next to each other and step back to let your eyes do the mixing. In other words, to make the color purple, Seurat would paint a red dot next to a purple dot. 5th graders used netbooks to research the artist and his technique then we painted apples in the pointillism style.
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