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pointillism
pointillism. Technique of using regular small touches of pure colour in such a way that when a picture is viewed from a suitable distance they seem to react together optically, creating more vibrant colour effects than if the same colours were physically mixed together. The term (‘peinture au point’) was coined in 1886 by the French critic Félix Fénéon in reference to
Seurat's La Grande Jatte, but Seurat, and also
Signac, preferred the broader term
divisionism. See also
Neo-Impressionism.
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 "The Star (Jordan, Middle East)")
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Pointillism Showers of colors, THE STAR
Newspaper article from: The Star (Jordan, Middle East); 9/9/1999; ; 642 words
; ...the founder of what is called today, pointillism, known to critics as neoimpressionism...was the milestone on which he created pointillism. Based on painting small points and...structured to form a whole entity, pointillism was a school that upgraded artistic...
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Poisoned arrow pointillism.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...build up our pictures of people intimately known by a kind of pointillism, a thousand flecks of experience laid on the canvas...sketch. Since Clendinnen was writing about her parents, her pointillism does not fall foul of Dr. Johnson's famous biographical...
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Painting with dots. (art lesson on Georges Seurat's pointillism)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...his own unusual way. His kind of painting with dots of color is called Pointillism. If you look closely at his painting The Side Show, you can see that...colors for your picture. WORDS TO DISCUSS museum gallery culture inspire Pointillism
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Pointillism pictures.
Magazine article from: Kidsworld Magazine; 6/22/2002; ; 629 words
; ...creating the colour green. Artifact George Seurat (1859-1891), a French artist, was a master of this technique called pointillism. It is a style of painting in which the colour is applied in dots or "points." With Seurat, every stroke became a precise...
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Pointillism.(Poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 3/22/2006; ; 329 words
; A duckweed filled ditch, pointillism of green, stock-still shiver of beginning, nature putting five billion dots on its i-s all at once. Me on my belly by the...
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Blood, sweat and pointillism turn Seurat's painting into musical
Newspaper article from: Edison-Norwood Times Review (IL); 4/30/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...show integrating song, dance, 19th century art and 21st century technology. "Seurat, because of his early adoption of pointillism, is often considered the artistic originator of the pixel and is revered by those who currently work in digital media...
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Pointillism Meets Point and Click.
PR Newswire; 8/11/2000; 700+ words
; Inflow Sponsors First-of-Its-Kind Technology Exhibit at Local Art Festival PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- InFlow, Inc. a provider of complex Web hosting and Internet services for e-commerce companies, enables Pittsburgh residents to experience the application of technology to art at the Shady
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Pointillism at Its Best.
Magazine article from: Printing News; 4/16/2001; 500 words
; Tesca Ltd. and Microtek Lab Inc. offer Tesca's Seurat Pro+ copy dot scanning software with the Microtek ArtixScan 6000XY Pro scanner. The Seurat Pro+ reportedly enables scanner users to get color-separated CMYK film into the digital workflow. Copy dot software performs best when the scanner can
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Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer previews the Brussels Ancient Art Fair and offers theatre tickets for those with a penchant for pointillism.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Brussels Ancient Art Fair (www.baaf.be) is three years old this month. Taking place between 9 and 15 June, it is not a fair of the conventional kind. Although it is still relatively young, its relationship with the 20-year-old Brussels Non-European Art Fair (BRUNEAF) and its enviable location
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Get to the point: drawing with dots.
Magazine article from: Fun For Kidz; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...just dots. This method of drawing is called pointillism. Artists who use pointillism place tiny dots or points close together on...take to create an entire picture using dots! Pointillism can be done with paint of course, but it is...
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pointillism
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
pointillism (Fr. pointiller , ‘to dot’) Technique of painting in regular dots or small dashes of pure colour, developed from neo-impressionism by Georges Seurat . When looked at from a distance, the dots create a vibrant optical effect.
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Georges Pierre Seurat
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the development of the technique of pointillism. The impressionist style, which marked...culminated in impressionism. Development of Pointillism But Seurat was interested in science...a theory to explain it. The term "pointillism" refers to the actual application of...
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divisionism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...times the diagonal measurement. The terms divisionism and pointillism are not always clearly differentiated, but whereas divisionism refers mainly to the underlying theory, pointillism describes the actual painting technique associated with Seurat...
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Riley, Bridget
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...celebrated exponent of Op art . Her interest in optical effects came partly through her study of Seurat's technique of pointillism , but when she took up Op art in the early 1960s she worked initially in black and white. She turned to colour in 1966...
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Seurat, Georges
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...recognition of Seurat as a leader of the avant-garde. The critic Félix Fénéon coined the term pointillism in reference to this painting to describe the technique of using myriad dots of colour, but Seurat preferred the term divisionism...
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