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PXLart - Neo-Pointillism PXlart positions itself as the natural evolution of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movement which revolutionaliised Art in the late nineteen century.
Like pointillism, or more precisly, Divisionism, PXLart is a form of painting which uses tiny primary-color dots to generate secondary color and shapes. Born out of the recent digital movement, PXLart uses the Pixel as its primary dot to explore the intricate relationship between the message and the media in our digital society.
Invented in 2003 by Nicolas Limare, PXLart extends the history of Art through the Neo-Pointillism movement.
PXLart - Explained
PXLart takes the smallest element of an image - the pixel - and transforms it from being the medium through which the message is projected into the message itself.
PXLart is using the minimum number of pixels needed for the eye to recognise an image.
Depending on the distance of the eye to the image, the eye sees either the image itself or the pixels that make up the image.
Up close only the pixels are visible.
Further away, the observer begins to recognise the image as a whole.
Once the image recognised, the eye focuses on the pixels themselves and acknowledges that rather than the image, it is the pixel itself that is of importance.
The message is in the eyes of the observer as he collaborates with the pixels to create the message.
One pixel alone is simply made up of red, green and bleu, but the observer's eye applies its own rules to produce new colors and shapes that are actually not there.
This raises questions in the mind regarding the truth of what our eye tells us and whether the message is truly separated from the media.
In today's digital world, it acts as a warning to the viewer:
What they think they see might actually not exist were it not for the presence of their own eye.
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