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Definition of Pointillism
1. Noun. 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.
2. Noun. 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.
Definition of Pointillism
1. Noun. In art, the use of small areas of color to construct an image. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pointillism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pointillism
Literary usage of Pointillism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water-colour Painting by Mary L. Breakell (1904)
"... —Dryness of Technique—Hard Edges—pointillism—Impressionism defined and compared
with Pre-Raphaelitism— Finishing Touches, Mounts and Frames. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"pointillism, the division of tones in painting by very small dots of equal ...
pointillism is an offshoot of impressionism, a movement that coincided with ..."
3. Matter, Form and Style: A Manual of Practice in the Writing of English by Hardress O'Grady (1913)
"He had a personal affection for Seurat and Anquetin, and believed strongly in
the value of their pointillism. There is, however, one important fact which ..."
4. The Great French Painters: And the Evolution of French Painting from 1830 to by Camille Mauclair (1903)
"pointillism, around which Pissarro and Toulouse-Lautrec had rallied for a short
while, deserves to be mentioned in a history of modern painting, ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"Since then we have had pointillism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and several other
isms; until finally painting, finding itself put out of countenance, ..."
6. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting Delivered on the Scammon by Kenyon Cox (1911)
"... modern devices for representing light and atmosphere, including that manner
of painting in minute dots which has been given the name of pointillism. ..."
7. Modern painting, its tendency and meaning by Willard Huntington Wright (1915)
"... tiny and labourious spotting which Impressionism and pointillism had taught
him, and branched out into simpler design and greater chromatic brilliancy. ..."
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