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pointillism
[ pwan-tl-iz-uhm, -tee-iz-, poin-tl-iz- ]
noun
- a theory and technique developed by the neo-impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dots of pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed into the resulting hue, as green, by the viewer.
pointillism
/ -tiːˌɪzəm; ˈpwæntɪˌlɪzəm; ˈpɔɪn- /
noun
- the technique of painting elaborated from impressionism, in which dots of unmixed colour are juxtaposed on a white ground so that from a distance they fuse in the viewer's eye into appropriate intermediate tones Also calleddivisionism
Derived Forms
- ˈǾԳپ, nounadjective
Other yvlog Forms
- Ǿt· noun adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pointillism1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pointillism1
Example Sentences
In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.
The paintings, done in a pointillism style, shimmered with the high-contrast pop of a flash photo or an instant Polaroid.
In “Colors of Summer,” Stream captures the avian residents of our region with pointillism and symbolism, drawing on his Sun’Aq Aleut ancestry.
Your notes at the end of the novel mention your method of “narrative pointillism.“
Larrimore remixes half a dozen French painting styles, chiefly pointillism, to make her otherworldly garden scenes.
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