pointillism

English

Etymology

French pointillisme, from pointiller (“to dot, to mark with points”), from point (“dot, point”).

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.

Derived terms

pointillist

Hypernyms

divisionism

Translations

painting technique

Catalan: puntillisme m
Dutch: pointillisme (nl) n
Finnish: pointillismi (fi)
French: pointillisme (fr) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pointillisme m

Nynorsk: pointillisme m

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

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