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pointillistic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pointillist |
| Derivation | pointillism |
Examples of pointillistic
pointillistic
Such pointillistic planning defined every step of the success that was the first lunar landing.
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Such pointillistic touches make Island Journey different from autobiography or nature writing.
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If you hunt and peck on the typewriter, your news feed might resemble a pointillistic painting.
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Nevertheless, the choir of five winds, complementing the strings, kept the normally pointillistic Stravinsky work going, and beautifully so.
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The trouble was that he was too much the poet, too much the pointillistic stylist, too self-concerned with scenes, images and feelings sensed in a severely limited autobiographical world.
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The book is almost pointillistic in its progress, gaining its incantatory power from scenes that strike with such force that we want to go back and read them over again.
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My hope is that it ends up being like a collage or a pointillistic painting, so that by the end of it, all the dots will be connected skillfully enough that you get a satisfying whole out of it.
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- Pointillist: of or relating to pointillism
- (pointillism) 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
- (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, ...
- 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. ...
