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pointillist, n. (a.)|ˈpwɛ̃tɪlɪst, ˈpwæn-|
Also ‖ -iste.
[ad. F. pointilliste: see prec.]
A. n. An artist who follows the style of pointillism.
1891Academy 6 June 544/3 ‘Impressionists’, ‘tâchistes’, ‘plein airistes’, and ‘pointillistes’, to use the jargon of the day. 1892Mag. of Art p. xxxv/1 Among the painters who devote themselves to the application of colour in minute subdivision—called pointillistes, which may be freely rendered stipplers—the most conspicuous were M. Signac and M. Van Rysselberghe. 1893Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 3/3 Mad imaginings of the various modern schools of impressionists, pointillistes, and so on. 1899Daily News 30 May 9/3 Of the Seasons by the pointillist Pissarro, ‘L'Automne’ is the most realistic and spacious. 1916A. Bennett Lion's Share xii. 93 Also she was acquainted with the names and styles of all known modern painters from pointillistes to cubistes. 1929E. Linklater Poet's Pub ii. 34 We ought to learn from the pointillistes. Put your colour on pure, in spots, and you get a luminous spectrum in verse as well as in painting. 1954W. Lewis Demon of Progress in Arts i. v. 23 The theory was that the colours would mix in the eye of the spectator—they must never be allowed to mix anywhere else... The Pointillistes adhered most rigidly to this rule. 1961Encycl. World Art V. 184 By employing the color theories of Michel Chevreul..and refining the principle of optical mixture from brush strokes to tiny dots, the pointillists arrived at..‘the logical consequence of impressionism’. 1963F. Gettings Golden Pleasure Book of Art 59 Because of the way Seurat and his friends used small points of colour, they were called Pointillistes.
B. attrib. passing into adj.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 414/1 There are several fallacies however, theoretical and practical, in this ‘spectral palette’ and pointillist method. 1905Sat. Rev. 11 Feb. 174 The ‘Neo-Impressionist’ or Pointillist painting. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 25 The methods of the pointillist painters have something in common with the use of the orchestra as displayed in Debussy's works. 1940O. Sitwell Left Hand, Right Hand! ii. 132 Those figures, full of latent movement, seen in a pointillist picture. 1971[see divisionism]. 1975D. Thomas Impressionists 87 He [sc. Van Gogh] met Pissaro, who was then moving towards the pointillist technique of Seurat.
b. transf.
1921E. Sapir Language 243 We cannot assimilate the luxurious periods of Latin nor the pointilliste style of the Chinese classics. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 46 This pointillist orchestration gives to many of Schönberg's works an impressionist effect in performance that an inspection of the score with the eye alone would hardly lead one to expect. 1958Observer 27 Apr. 16/4 Thackeray's..effective ‘pointillist’ method. 1959Ibid. 14 June 24/3 Although its style was largely pointilliste, the music did not strike me as derivative. 1970Daily Tel. 30 Apr. 16/5 A certain lack of eloquence became most clearly discernible during a few melodious lines given to the oboe in this largely pointillist piece. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 1229/4 Neither the satire nor the pointillist plotting adds up to much that is coherent and compelling.
Hence pointiˈllistic a.
1922H. Crane Let. 19 Apr. (1965) 84 All this talk of Matty's is..metallic and pointillistic. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) IX. 226/1 His [sc. Webern's] next compositions..are still more highly concentrated, still more transparent and pointillistic in texture. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 44/3 Philip Corner adds sporadic pointillistic piano gestures. 1977Times 22 Oct. 10/6 A new and exclusive pointillistic dyeing method... You can shade your carpet from dark to pale. |