DOT AND ART

There has been many artists who has used the dot wthin their works. Dots can be used to create abstract composition (Kandinsky, Delaunay), or to create realistic objects, landscape and people through the "puntillismoa" (Van Gogh, Seurat).Here you are some of them.

Vasili Kandinsky (Rusia)

Robert Delaunay (France)

George Seurat (France)

Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands)

Roy Lichtenstein (USA)

VISUAL ELEMENTS OF AN IMAGE: THE DOT

THE DOT

- Is the smallest visual element of a drawing (we can draw it with the tip of a pen).

- It hasn´t got a defined shape. That is to say, it doesn´t have to be round. It can have      different shapes (square, triangel...) colours, materials, and sizes. But its size must be  small, otherwise it will be considered a plane.

- It can conform lines, and shapes trhough lineing them up, or putting them into groups.

DOTS AND VOLUME

Whay is there depth in one of the image and not in the other?

A simple group of dots can also simulate farness or nearness, that is to say, the three dimensions. There are many resources to do that:

- Making its size smaller to simulate farness.

- Using warm and light colours to simulate something that is near.

- Overlapping 

- Using the chiaroscure. Dots that are close together make darker areas; dots that are farther apart make lighter ones