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POINTILLISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pointillism mean? 

POINTILLISM (noun)
  The noun POINTILLISM has 2 senses:

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 Franceplay

2. 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 Franceplay

  Familiarity information: POINTILLISM used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POINTILLISM (noun)


Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

pointillistic (of or relating to pointillism)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pointillism" is a kind of...):

genre (a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique)

Derivation:

pointillist (a painter who uses the technique of pointillism)


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