This video was created to teach young children about the history of the art form, pointillism. Instructions included at the end of the video on how to create a pointillism-inspired autumn tree.
Supplied needed:
- a piece of white or light colored paper
- pencil
- brown crayon
- at least three colors of acrylic or poster paint
- Q-tips
Key moments:
0:00 Introduction to Pointillism
0:11 Paul Signac and Georges Seurat
0:50 How pointillism got its name
1:24 Modern day pointillism
1:37 Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist
2:06 Ana Enshina, a Russian artist
2:30 Autumn trees using pointillism
3:01 How to make your own pointillism painting
6:20 An artistic technique born from trying something different
Soundtrack info: Temptation March by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Artist: audionautix.com/