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pointillism (pwăn`təlĭz'əm): see postimpressionism postimpressionism, term coined by Roger Fry to refer to the work of a number of French painters active at the end of the 19th cent. who, although they developed their varied styles quite independently, were united in their rejection of impressionism . ..... Click the link for more information. . pointillismIn painting, the practice of applying small strokes or dots of contrasting colour to a surface so that from a distance they blend together. The term (and its synonym, divisionism) was first used to describe the paintings of Georges Seurat. See also Camille Pissarro; Paul Signac. pointillism the technique of painting elaborated from impressionism, in which dots of unmixed colour are juxtaposed on a white ground so that from a distance they fuse in the viewer's eye into appropriate intermediate tones www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On the screen--a veil of pixels--everything is changing, morphing, mutating, pointillistic. Based on Christopher Bond's 1973 drama, which itself was derived from an 1847 Victorian melodrama in the ``penny dreadful'' manner, ``Sweeney Todd'' pushed the Broadway musical into high tragedy and further toward the pointillistic, atonal musical palette that Sondheim continues to evolve. Here's why: The dance is composed from a finely transient palette of human gestures summoning up vanishing states of mind and elapsed moments, as if offering a pointillistic reminiscence with an ever-shifting subject. |
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