What’s The Pointillism?

Do you see the tiny dots up close, or the total image, standing further away?

Pointillism, as utilized by the artist George Seurat, is the technique in which images are created through tiny painted dots.

Up close, we see only the dots. But, stepping back, getting “the bigger picture,” we see it takes a form.

It is some kind of image.

In his famous work, “A Sunday Afternoon On The Island La Grande Jatte,” we see an excellent example of Pointillism.

Dots.

So many dots that turn into people.

The little blonde girl is famously associated with the painting.

Look at her closer, versus the smaller, centered, full-length depiction of her.

She looks less like a girl, and more like a mess of colorful spots.

Features are harder to distinguish. It’s a lot like our lives.

Up close, messy dots, that don’t seem to take any shape.

Further away?

There’s a picture. There’s form. There’s meaning.

“For the heavens are higher than the earth; so My ways are higher than your⁺ ways, and My thoughts than your⁺ thoughts. For as the rain comes down—and the snow—from the heavens, and from there it does not return until it has quenched the earth and made it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the one sowing and bread to the one eating, so is My word that goes forth from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty until it has done that which I delight, and it will prosper for that which I send it.”

Isaiah 55:9-11