• (n.) A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line bei...
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Ne`o·im·pres'sion·ism noun (Painting) A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the layin...
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Neoimpressionism is a movement in French painting initiated mainly by Seurat in the 1880s and combining his vivid colour technique with strictly formal composition.
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neoimpressionism 1. A 19th-century movement in painting, led by the pointillist Georges Seurat, that favored stricter and more formal techniques of composition than impressionism. 2. The doctrines and methods of a group of artists of the 19th century, based on a more strictly scientific practice of impressionist technique.
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