0 a painter who paints in a style developed in France at the end of the 19th century in which small spots of pure colour are used that seem to mix when seen from far away:
1 in or relating to a style of painting developed in France at the end of the 19th century in which small spots of pure colour are used that seem to mix when seen from far away:
Pissarro's late landscapes retain the pointillists' interest in optically mixed color.
It's like a pointillist painting. You see a series of dots, and when you back up you can see it's a picture.
The artist is known around town for his meticulous pointillist ink sketches.
Seurat had already conquered color and the painstaking pointillist technique.
As the dream texture unfolds, a delicate pointillist motif rises to another dissonant cluster, again based on the two chords.
In contrast, many of the instrumental sections were in a pointillist style.
