How Can Art Trick Our Minds?

Instead of mixing paint colors on a palette, what happens if we let our eyes do the mixing? Learn about Pointillism and how the artist Georges Seurat used the science of optics to create a whole new way of painting!

Instead of mixing paint colors on a palette, what happens if we let our eyes do the mixing? Learn about Pointillism and how the artist Georges Seurat used the science of optics to create a whole new way of painting!

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Chief Digital Officer: Douglas Hegley
Executive Producer: Sarah Wambold
Director/Writer/Producer: Rachel Smith
Producer: Emma Vecchione
Project Manager: Maria Kozanecka
Animation Direction: Lisa LaBracio
Art Direction: Tara Sunil Thomas
Animation + Compositing: Lisa LaBracio
Narrators: Corin Wells, Charlotte Hale
Episode Consultants: Charlotte Hale, Dita Amory, Laura Corey
Education Consultants: Darcy-Tell Morales, Merantine Hens
Original Music: Austin Fisher
Sound Mix: Dave Raymond
Production Design: Aurola Wedman Alfaro
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Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), ca. 1887-88.
Georges Seurat (French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris).
Oil on canvas, 39 1/4 x 59 in. (99.7 x 149.9 cm).
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 (61.101.17)

Modern chromatics : with applications to art and industry, 1879.
Author Ogden Nicholas Rood (1831–1902).
3 pages, 1 leaf, [v]-viii, [9]-329 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams ; Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm).
(170.1 R674)

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