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pointillism

[ UK /pˈɔ‍ɪntɪlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. 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

How To Use pointillism In A Sentence

  • The artist combines elegant lines, wiggles and pointillism to create an atmosphere of surreal spaces surrounding the character.
  • Look at the way it's painted, at the varying degrees of pointillism, ranging from the tight treatment of the umbrellas at the left, to the looser, fatter dots of the red tiled roofs at right.
  • Not everything here is tumescent: Théo van Rysselberghe's seascape "Big Clouds" (1893) is a bit of Seurat pointillism on the Danube, and in Klimt's "Forester House in Weissenbach on the Attersee" (1912), the open casements are painted with Van Gogh's flamelike passion. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
  • In 3,000 words or so of journalistic pointillism, McGeough paints his picture of America's predatory cynicism with artful little dabs and daubs of well-placed fact.
  • New to the body-painting arena is the airbrushing of makeup using a process called pointillism, a form of art borrowed from the French impressionists.
  • Seurat culminated pointillism
  • These dense fields seem to deconstruct, or at least loosen up, the notion of ‘solid’ color, playing optical games borrowed from pointillism and the color experiments of Kupka and the Delaunays.
  • Van Rhysselberge, one of the few painters to-day who practise _pointillisme_, or the system of dots, is Promenades of an Impressionist
  • Her interests in optical effects came partly through her study of the Neo-Impressionist technique of pointillism, but when she took up Op art in the early 1960s she worked initially in black-and-white.
  • After introducing Georges Seurat and pointillism, line desks with newspaper.
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