Pointillism - Lots and Lots of Dots!

¹     Have you ever done a dot-to-dot picture? Some artists painted whole pictures with lots and lots of small dots. Red dots, blue dots, yellow dots...each painting is made up of thousands of colorful dots!

²     "Dots?" you may ask. "Why paint with dots?"

³     Some artists who lived in the 19th century thought that dots were fun. This is what they did. They made confetti-sized dots to create shapes in their paintings. They used many colors. They thought that the dots made the picture look bright. Especially from far away.

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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 2 to 4
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	3.21

	challenging words:		artists, ever, especially, lived, picture, have, artist, painting, different, strange, beautiful, year, river, careful, people, piece
	content words:		Georges Seurat, So Mr

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