pointillism

English

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

Detail of Georges Seurat's painting La Parade.

pointillism (usually uncountable, plural pointillisms)

(art) The use of many small areas of color to construct an image.
Synonym: pointillage

painting technique

Afrikaans: pointillisme
Catalan: puntillisme m
Czech: pointilismus (cs) m
Dutch: pointillisme (nl) n
Finnish: pointillismi (fi)
French: pointillisme (fr) m
Greek: πουαντιγισμός (el) m (pouantigismós), πουαντιλισμός (el) m (pouantilismós)
Maori: tā tongitongi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pointillisme m

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

pointillism n (uncountable)

declension of pointillism (singular only)

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