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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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Inspired by the Pointillists, the new Artoleum collection of floor coverings uses the same principle of juxtaposing pure unmixed colours together in stripes and dots. He painted intently, disregarding all the topical trends (the Nabis, Pointillists, Fauvists, Cubists), and declared to his astonished contemporaries, "The subject is not important to me; what I want to reproduce is what exists between the subject and me. Whereas the young Stella wanted to find a rigid formal container for the unruly energies of Abstract Expressionism--essentially the attitude of the Pointillists toward Impressionism--Burton has sought a way out of the restrictions of the '60s back to the fluidity of postwar painting. |
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