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poin·til·lism (pwăN'tē-ĭz'əm, point'l-ĭz'-)  |
[French pointillisme, from pointiller, to paint small dots, stipple, from Old French *pointille, engraved with small dots, from point, point, from Latin pūnctum, from neuter past participle of pungere, to prick.]
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| Music Encyclopedia: Pointillism |
Term borrowed from painting for a musical texture in which notes of different tone-colours are presented in isolation rather than in linear sequence, as in post-Webern music of the 1950s and 1960s. See Klangfarbenmelodie.
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Technique of employing a point, or small dot, of colour to create the maximum colour intensity in a Neo-Impressionist canvas. While NEO-IMPRESSIONISM suggests both the style created by Georges Seurat and the ensuing movement that flourished between 1886 and 1906, Pointillism denotes only the technique. Seurat favoured the term 'chromo-luminarism', which conveys his dual interest in intensifying the effect of colour and light. Seurat's chief disciple, Paul Signac, in his book D'Eug?ne Delacroix au N?o-Impressionnisme (Paris, 1899), offered an alternative term to Pointillism or chromo-luminarism: DIVISIONISM. Divisionism refers to the separation of colour into individual strokes of pigment, in accord with colour theories, rather than to the points themselves.
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Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct dots of colour create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and blending. Aside from color "mixing" phenomena, there is the simpler graphic phenomenon of depicted imagery emerging from disparate points. Historically, Pointillism has been a figurative mode of executing a painting, as opposed to an abstract modality of expression.
The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones and is related closely to Divisionism, a more technical variant of the method. It is a style with few serious practitioners and is notably seen in the works of Seurat, Signac and Cross. The term Pointillism was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.
The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the more common methods of blending pigments on a palette or using the many commercially available premixed colors. Pointillism is analogous to the four-color CMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses, Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Key (black). Televisions and computer monitors use a pointillist technique to represent images but with Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.
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If red, blue and green light (the additive primaries) are mixed, the result is something close to white light. The brighter effect of pointillist colours could rise from the fact that subtractive mixing is avoided and something closer to the effect of additive mixing is obtained even through pigments.
The painting technique used to perform pointillistic color mixing is at the expense of traditional brushwork which could be used to delineate texture.
Pointillism also refers to a style of 20th-century music composition, used by composers like Anton Webern.
Field of mathematics which deals with scattering of points in a volume, surface.Sciences et Vie Magazin num1054 Juillet 2005, p84 et seq Other example: scattering of electrons on a conductive object surface.
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| Translations: Pointillism |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - pointillisme
Nederlands (Dutch)
schilderstijl gebaseerd op gekleurde puntjes
Français (French)
n. - pointillisme
Deutsch (German)
n. - Pointillismus
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πουαντιλισμός
Italiano (Italian)
divisionismo
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pontilhismo (m) (técnica de arte)
Español (Spanish)
n. - puntillismo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pointillism (konst.)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
点画法
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 點畫法
한국어 (Korean)
n. - (프랑스 인상파의) 점묘법
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) التنقيطيه : التصوير بالنقط وهو مذهب في الرسم
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - טכניקת ציור בנקודות של צבעי היסוד, המתערבבות בעין הצופה
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