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:
The spools are hung in long, adjacent columns to create a pointillist, inverted abstraction of a famous painting.
Some of his pointillist work is composed with photographic precision.
Paint has been layered on canvas with a spatula, using a painstaking, pointillist technique.
Their pointillist brushwork he used more readily, as in this painting.
Between 1958 and 1959 her advertising agency work saw her adopting a style of painting based on the pointillist technique.
He adopted the pointillist technique until 1894 when he started to combine it with more feathery strokes.
The painting technique used for pointillist color mixing is at the expense of the traditional brushwork used to delineate texture.
He created very basic gestures, asking for a long tone or improvisation in a pointillist style, for example.
