pointillist means of, pertaining to, or in the style of pointillism Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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POINTILLIST — [Adjective, Noun] Adjective: Of or executed in the style of pointillism, a painting technique using small distinct dots of color. Noun: An artist who paints in this style. From French pointilliste, from pointiller ("to mark with dots"), from point ("point, dot") + -iste ("-ist"). Unlike impressionist, a broad category concerned with fleeting light and blended atmosphere, or stippler, a practitioner of monochrome dot-work for graphic shading, the pointillist is a systematic scientist of the retina, deploying pure chromatic dots in a calculated optical alloy. It is the meadow dissolving into a frenetic constellation of yellow and blue upon approach; the shimmering riverbank composed entirely of cool violet and warm orange specks; the portrait whose serene flesh is, up close, a microscopic riot of complementary hues. The technique is a quiet argument for distance, proposing that cohesion and truth are merely failures of resolution.
adj
- of, pertaining to, or in the style of pointillism
noun
- An artist who paints in this style