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/pˈɔɪntɪlˌɪst/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to pointillism
NOUN
- a painter who uses the technique of pointillism
How To Use pointillist In A Sentence
- Under her they merely turn from pointillistic snapshots into abstract expressionism.
- The sheer size of both works easily reveals each grain of color within the picture plane so that they appear as contemporary reflections of the pointillist style of Georges Seurat.
- It will be recalled that Seurat was a pointillist who filled his canvas with dots.
- Perhaps, in pointillist fashion, I can flesh out some of the strengths and weaknesses I see in greater detail in a future post. stuart A Blogger’s Case Against Blogs
- It was a nearly perfect set that ended with "Johnny Come Lately," which began with the rousing melody rearranged into a contrapuntal, pointillistic pattern with bass support from Peter Washington, and centering around a percussion solo by Dana Hall. Classic Sounds
- Why blame America's distress on its deepening inequalities when someone doing a pointillist inspection of the remonstrants in Zuccotti Park can write that an organizer there was behaving as if "All occupiers are equal - but some occupiers are more equal than others" ? Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS
- Percussive rhythm and pointillist effects propel this chant-like song depicting death as a beautiful woman marching on a road of bleached bones; difficult intervals, many sevenths and ninths.
- In many of the more classically pointillist, or ‘divisionist,’ works that Signac created over the next few years, the same disjunction between content and style prevails.
- The plantings at Powell are mostly pointillist and polychromatic. Powell Gardens, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
- As the foreword to the exhibition's catalogue notes, Signac has always existed in the shadow of the more famous pointillist, Georges Seurat.