pointillism
noun/ˈpɔɪntɪlɪzəm/, /ˈpwæntɪlɪzəm/
/ˈpɔɪntɪlɪzəm/, /ˈpwæntɪlɪzəm/
[uncountable]- a style of painting that was developed in France in the late nineteenth century in which very small marks of colour are used to build up the pictureTopics Artc2Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French pointillisme, from pointiller ‘mark with dots’.
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