Keywords: Seurat-La Parade detail.jpg pointillism technique Instead of painting outlines and shapes with brush strokes and areas of color pointillism builds up the image from separate colored dots of paint From a distance the dots merge to some extent and appear to be areas of shaded tones but the colors have an extra vibrancy from the juxtaposition of contrasting dots 1887-88 oil on canvas cm 99 7 149 9 detail Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art credit line Artwork-provenanceorcl bequest Stephen C Clark 1960 pointillism 61 101 17 http //www metmuseum org/collection/the-collection-online/search/437654 Metropolitan Museum of Art <gallery>File Georges Seurat 066 jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 Parade de cirque Details of paintings by Georges Seurat |