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pointillist::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pointillistic |
pointillist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | painter |
| Derivation | pointillism |
Examples of pointillist
pointillist
The pointillist technique was later advanced to create halftoning and Benday dots.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Like a pointillist painting, each splash of value unites in the viewer's eye.
From the dispatch.com
The book is composed, like a pointillist painting, of thousands of factual details.
From the economist.com
Here the artist has created a frame for the video projection using pointillist technique.
From the courier-journal.com
She has adopted a pointillist technique to render primitive shapes with depth and motion.
From the washingtonpost.com
The ravages of a famine as seen through the pointillist vision of Indian Director Satyajit Ray.
From the time.com
Might she be a modern pointillist, beguiling the eye with distant memories of fog, haze and glitter?
From the telegraph.co.uk
Byatt has wrought a richly detailed, decade-spanning, at once Olympian and pointillist masterpiece.
From the theatlantic.com
He blends observations and judgments the way a pointillist painter would to create a large picture.
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- Of or relating to pointillism
- A painter who uses the technique of pointillism
- (pointillism) 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
- (Pointillism (music)) 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, ...
- (pointillistic) Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image; Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism
- (pointillism) In art, the use of small areas of color to construct an image
- (pointillism) A painting technique in which pure dots of color are dabbed onto the canvas surface. The viewer's eye, when at a distance, is then expected to see these dots merge as cohesive areas of different colors and color ranges.
- (pointillism) 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.
- (POINTILLISM) A NEO-IMPRESSIONIST technique akin to OPTICAL MIXTURES, whereby closely intermingled dots or flecks of vivid colors, placed side by side, are combined in the viewer's brain to apparently produce a new color which is more vivid than if that color had been produced by blending. ...
