Chevreul also developed what is called Chevreul’s Illusion, he suggest that bright edges that seem to exist between adjacent strips of identical colors having different intensities.
This new idea had huge impact on the art world because it directly led to the development of Pointillism (a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye) by the Neo-Impressionists Seurat and Paul Signac. These artist found the basic needs for the division of tones in Chevreul’s principles and limited their palette of colors to Chevreul’s circle of fundamental colors.
Chevreul’s work was aimed at replicating nature by separating effects of light and chiaroscuro,(a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color) using color contrast.
---monochrome --- painting done in a range of tones of one color.
Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte
Paul Signac's Portrait of Felix
Paul Signac