What is the type of color mixing used by Georges Seurat?

A. Palette
B. Optic
C. Glaze
D. Impasto


Answer: B. Optic

He used the painting method of Pointilism in which the Optical color mixing phenomenon is achieved by the use of many dots of pure unmixed colour on a canvas so that the viewer's eyes mixes the colors optically and create a image(with secondary colours like yellow) as perceived by the viewer's brain. For example, small dots of red and green dots are placed adjacently or overlapping dots of red or 

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