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Pointillism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of many small areas of color to construct an image. uncountable, usually
  2. 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 France wordnet
  3. 3
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From French pointillisme, from pointiller (“to dot, to mark with points”), from point (“dot, point”).

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