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pointillist

pointillist

1 9.1
A painter who makes pictures using many small dots of color
  • noun
  • /ˈpɔɪn.tɪ.lɪst/
  • Specialized
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  • Importantly, the imagined photograph not only resembles a Seurat painting in terms of its pointillist style, but also specifically invokes his Models, which is perhaps one of the most famous instances of meta-representation in Impressionist art.
  • pointillist painting

Examples

  • In an email to io9, Nelson describes his map as "a pointillist look at the 2012 election results, which does a fairer job of illustrating where, how many, and how people voted in the election than the more typical full-color generalization."

    Blog text (5)

  • As a renowned pointillist, she used thousands of tiny dots to bring her subjects to life.

  • Our groups worked on two different types of Pointillist pieces.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Now imagine you're gazing at a late-nineteenth-century French pointillist painting.

    Academic text (2004)

  • A pointillist's yellow-and-green cloud.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Like a pointillist's canvas, the beach falls apart up close, revealing its component parts: billions of tiny, bleached cockle shells.

    Blog text (10)

  • The pointillist carefully applied small dots of color to create a vibrant landscape.

  • Many famous pointillists, like Georges Seurat, used this technique to challenge traditional painting methods.

Synonyms

artist
vspointillist
∞ 1.0

A person who makes art like paintings or sculptures with imagination and feeling

applies a specific dot technique in painting rather than many art forms
painter
vspointillist
214 1.0

A person who makes pictures using colour on canvas or paper

focuses on a precise dot technique rather than broad paint work
stippler
vspointillist
  • Specialized
9.9

A person who makes pictures using many small dots to show light and dark

uses only many small distinct color dots to form the image

How Pointillist

pointillist
  • Specialized
1 9.1
painter
214 1.0

Surface Forms

pointillist singular
pointillists plural

Morphology

pointillist = pointillism (semi-transparent) = pointillism + ist

The suffix '-ist' regularly forms an agent noun (one who practices a technique) from the noun 'pointillism', so the immediate derivation is clear.

Etymology

Pointillist as a noun names an artist after the French pointillisme and the simple word point, meaning 'dot'. The name shows that a pointillist makes pictures by placing tiny dots of paint next to each other to build the whole image.