a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
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pointillism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | genre |
| Derivation | pointillist |
pointillism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | art movement, artistic movement, school |
| Derivation | pointillistic |
Examples of pointillism
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Pointillism is an art technique in which small dots are used to form an image.
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Sometimes you almost seem to hear each note by itself, a kind of aural pointillism.
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He practiced pointillism, and she learned how he laid out his dotted plan.
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Properly dazzled, a good number of the Twenty became converts to Seurat's pointillism.
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Pointillism also refers to a style of 20th-century music composition.
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Explanations of pointillism, impressionism and other styles are nicely woven into the narration.
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Known as pointillism, the idea was to make colours more vibrant as they hit the viewer's eyes.
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Van Allsburg's witty, stark, black-and-white pointillism gave the book a distinctive personality.
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In the 1880s, he adopted the dabbing style of pointillism.
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- A school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
- A genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
- (pointillistic) pointillist: of or relating to pointillism
- Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. ...
- Punctualism (commonly also called "pointillism" or "point music") is a style of musical composition prevalent in Europe between 1949 and 1955 "whose structures are predominantly effected from tone to tone, without superordinate formal conceptions coming to bear" (Essl 1989, 93). ...
- In art, the use of small areas of color to construct an image
- The concept behind Pointillism involves painting small dots of primary colors on the painting surface which are visually mixed by the eye when viewing from a distance creating secondary <secondary colors> and intermediate colors <intermediate colors>. ...
- A branch of French Impressionism in which the principle of optical mixture or broken color was carried to the extreme of applying color in tiny dots or small, isolated strokes. ...
- A system of painting using tiny dots or "points" of color, developed by French artist Georges Seurat in the 1880s. Seurat systematized the divided brushwork and optical color mixture of the Impressionists and called this technique divisionism.
