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pointillism

pointillism

English

Noun

Detail of Georges Seurat's painting La Parade.

pointillism ‎(usually uncountable, plural pointillisms)

In art, the use of small areas of color to construct an image.

Hypernyms

divisionism

Translations

painting technique

Catalan: puntillisme m
Finnish: pointillismi (fi)
French: pointillisme (fr) m

Spanish: puntillismo (es) m
Swedish: pointillism (sv) c