A Theory of Two Georges

There is the theory that a few colors can reproduce everything else, and I think of the great French painter Georges Seurat. In the latter part of the 19th century, Seurat painted dots of red, green, blue and other primary colors to recreate nature in our brain. Our eyes fill in most of the complimentary color due to the way human vision works. Pointillism in the years before the 20th century produced works such as Seurat’s The Seine and la Grande Jatte – Springtime, 1888. And actually this is how most inkjet printing is done. Dots of cyan, magenta, yellow and black are printed...Read more