1) Art movement 2) Artistic movement 3) Artistic technique 4) French word used in English 5) Painting technique using dots 6) School
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1) Divisionism
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Pointillism m is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term `Pointillism` was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now us.....
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use of separate dots of pure colour rather than blends
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(from the article `light`) The late 19th-century French painter Georges Seurat created a new technique, known as pointillism, based on diffraction effects. His paintings ... The terms divisionism and pointillism originated in descriptions of Seurat`s painting technique, in which paint was applied to the canvas in dots of ... [4 relat...
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Method of oil painting developed in the 1880s by the French neo-Impressionist Georges
Seurat. He used small dabs of pure colour laid side by side that, when viewed from a distance, blend...
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A branch of French Impressionism in which the principle of optical mixture or broken color was carried to the extreme of applying color in tiny dots or small, isolated strokes. Forms are visible in a pointillist painting only from a distance, when the viewer's eye blends the colors to create visual masses and outlines. The inventor and chief expone...
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A system of painting using tiny dots or "points" of color, developed by French artist Georges Seurat in the 1880s. Seurat systematized the divided brushwork and optical color mixture of the Impressionists and called this technique divisionism.
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A branch of French Impressionism in which the principle of optical mixture or broken color was carried to the extreme of applying color in tiny dots or small, isolated strokes. Forms are visible in a pointillist painting only from a distance, when the viewer's eye blends the colors to create visual masses and outlines. The inventor and chief expone...
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The art of Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colours are used to generate secondary colours to produce a luminous quality. Pointillism is focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term 'Pointillism' was first used with respect to the work of George Seurat, and he is the artist most closely...
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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
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Method of oil painting developed in the 1880s by the French neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat. He used small dabs of pure colour laid side by side that, when viewed from a distance, blend together to make other colours, forms, and outlines, and give an impression of shimmering light. Seurat's reliance on the `optical mixing` of col...
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