POINTILLISM
Dictionary entry overview: What does pointillism mean? • POINTILLISM (noun)
The noun POINTILLISM has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: POINTILLISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• POINTILLISM (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("pointillism" is a kind of...):
school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers)
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
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