pointillism
11pointillism — poin|til|lis|m [ˈpwæntılızəm, ˈpɔın ] n [U] [Date: 1900 2000; : French; Origin: pointillisme, from point spot ] a style of painting popular in the late 19th century that uses small spots of colour all over the painting, rather than brush strokes… …
12pointillism — poin|til|lism [ pɔıntl,ızəm ] noun uncount a style of art in which paintings are created using very small spots of color ╾ poin|til|list noun count, adjective …
13pointillism — pɔɪntɪlɪzm , pwæn n. 19th century artistic movement characterized by the practice of painting with colorful points or dots placed in close proximity to one another …
14pointillism — (PWENH tee yizm) [French, from pointiller: to mark with dots] In neo impressionist painting, a technique for creating effects of light by crowding a surface with small spots of varying colors; these are said to be blended by the viewer’s eye …
15pointillism — [ pwantɪlɪz(ə)m] noun a technique of neo Impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colours, which become blended in the viewer s eye. Derivatives pointillist noun & adjective pointillistic adjective Origin C19: from Fr. pointillisme …
16pointillism — noun (U) a style of painting popular in the late 19th century that uses small spots of colour all over the painting, rather than brush strokes pointillist adjective pointillist noun (C) …
17pointillism — poin·til·lism …
18pointillism — UK [ˈpɔɪntɪˌlɪz(ə)m] / US [ˈpɔɪnt(ə)lˌɪzəm] noun [uncountable] art a style of art in which pictures are created using very small spots of colour Derived words: pointillist noun countable Word forms pointillist : singular pointillist plural… …
19pointillism — poin•til•lism [[t]ˈpwæn tlˌɪz əm, tiˌɪz , ˈpɔɪn tlˌɪz [/t]] n. (sometimes cap.) fia a theory and technique developed by the neo impressionists, based on the principle that juxtaposed dots of pure color, as blue and yellow, are optically mixed… …
20pointillism — /ˈpwæntəlɪzəm/ (say pwantuhlizuhm), /ˈpɔɪntəlɪzəm/ (say poyntuhlizuhm) noun a method of painting in which luminosity is produced by laying on the colours in points or small dots of unmixed colour in close proximity, which are then fused by the… …
