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benday dots. a man named benjamin day invented this thing. it's a technique for printing with widely- or narrowly-spaced, sometimes overlapping dots. with this method, you can achieve the illusion of a whole range of colors when in fact you're only using four—cyan, magenta, yellow and black. comic books in the 1950s used benday dots, and if you find an old comic book and look really closely, you'll see how it works. starting with the 1960s pop art movement, certain artists made exaggerated benday dots with paint (as in the roy lichtenstein painting above). much earlier—in the 19th century—artists like georges-pierre seurat painted with a technique called pointillism, which may have have been the inspiration to mr day. |
