单词 | pointillism |
释义 | pointillismn. 1. A technique of painting using tiny dots of various pure colours, which when viewed from a distance are blended by the viewer's eye.This technique was developed particularly by French neo-impressionist painters, notably Georges Seurat (1859–91), as a means of producing luminous effects. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > neo-Impressionism or pointillism neo-impressionism1892 pointillism1899 divisionism1901 pointillage1916 dot painting1932 1899 Graphic 29 Apr. 538/1 ‘Pointillism’ is dead—the streaky, the woolly (the intentionally woolly, we mean), the startlingly primary, and so forth, are absent, and what the general public call the sane calmly resumes its sway. 1901 Sat. Rev. 23 Feb. 240/1 Impressionism in France had..passed through the phases of luminism, vibration, pointillisme, independence and neo-impressionism, all comparatively short-lived extreme phases. 1904 Athenæum 2 Apr. 441/1 Modern Dutch artists..seem to be taking pointillism with a stolid seriousness which its inventors never can have intended. 1947 C. Hedström & G. Taylor tr. I. Bergström Dutch Still-life Painting 17th Cent. vi. 232 His broad and free handling is set off by a spirited pointillisme in some passages. 1976 New Yorker 15 Mar. 28/2 The murals are a triumph of Japanese pointillism. 2001 Art Room Catal. Autumn 2/2 His 1915 impressionistic study of Unterach..is a rich canvas of blues and greens, effected in tiny brushstrokes reminiscent of pointillism. 2. In extended use (esp. in Music): a method or style of creating a representation of something (in various media) from a collection of fragments, details, brief images, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > style of composition French Impressionism1884 monothematism1886 impressionism1889 blues1915 neoprimitivism1922 pointillism1922 blue1924 stile concitato1926 kineticism1939 stile antico1944 galant1949 sock it to me (them, etc.)!1970 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories romanticism1821 romantism1828 naturalism1845 realism1856 sensationism1862 symbolism1866 classicisma1878 eroticism1881 impressionism1883 sensitivism1891 verism1892 neoclassicism1893 veritism1894 social realism1898 neo-realism1908 futurism1909 Félibrism1911 postmodernism1914 vorticism1914 Dada1918 Dadaism1918 Scythism1921 Scythianism1923 Russian Formalism1925 surrealism1927 Neue Sachlichkeit1929 populism1930 Sachlichkeit1930 dirty realism1931 ultraism1932 thingism1935 formalism1943 organicism1945 lettrism1946 New Wave1960 socialist realism1967 catastrophism1969 pointillism1972 po-mo1986 1922 Music & Lett. 3 84 An infinite accumulation of small and insignificant inorganic details amounting to a kind of musical pointillisme. 1959 Times 4 Apr. 10/2 Hamilton's music has been moving towards serialism for some time, and in this sonata he finds himself up to the elbows in neo-Webernist pointillisme. 1972 S. Hynes Edwardian Occasions 166 Mrs [Beatrice] Webb..created another character..by a large number of small strokes—a kind of literary pointillism. 1994 Vibe Nov. 38/3 I hear a lot of pointillism in hip hop. Little dots all over a certain area with scratches and splashes organized into rhythms and patterns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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