pointillism
(noun)
in art, the use of small areas of color to construct an image
Examples of pointillism in the following topics:
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Categorizing Art
- Pointillism, a technique in late Impressionism (1880s) developed especially by the artist Georges Seurat, employs dots to create variation in color and depth in an attempt to approximate the way people really see color.
- Georges Lemmen's work, "The Beach at Heist" (c. 1891/2) is an example of late Impressionist style known as pointillism.
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Post-Impressionism
- Georges Seurat and his followers, for instance, concerned themselves with Pointillism, the systematic use of tiny dots of colour .
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Fauvism
- Fauvism can be classified as an extreme development of Van Gogh's Post-Impressionism fused with the pointillism of Seurat and other Neo-Impressionist painters, in particular Paul Signac.