Neoimpressionism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition. uncountable
"The method, variously called pointillism, divisionism (separated colours) or neoimpressionism, is especially effective in the half-dozen monumental paintings Seurat considered his toiles de lutte (battle-canvases). […] Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?"
Example
More examples"The method, variously called pointillism, divisionism (separated colours) or neoimpressionism, is especially effective in the half-dozen monumental paintings Seurat considered his toiles de lutte (battle-canvases). […] Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?"
Etymology
From neo- + impressionism.
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