Seurat

The inventor of divisionism, more commonly referred to as pointillism, studied color theory and implemented it in his art. He put small strokes of contrasting colors next to each other. Viewing his work your eyes mix the colors from a distance, up close you can see the individual strokes of pure color.

I am very interested in colors and how they work. Seurat is among the first artists to really study color theory from a scientific as well as artistic approach.

Here is a detail from a Seurat painting.