divisionismn.
/dɪˈvɪʒənɪz(ə)m/ The practice of painting with pure colours, and of achieving the effect of mixed colours by the juxtaposition on the canvas of contrasting colours instead of by mixing the desired shade on the palette.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > neo-Impressionism or pointillism
neo-impressionism1892
pointillism1899
divisionism1901
pointillage1916
dot painting1932
1901 L. Villari Giovanni Segantini 73 In this replica he began to apply the system of divisionism.
1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Nov. 745/4 Cézanne, with his insistence upon the volumes of objects, rebelled against the disintegration of form which was the logical consequence of divisionism.
1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook 391 The great influence which Seurat's system of ‘divisionism’ exerted on painters of his generation.
1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 318/2 Notable precursors of Divisionism were Watteau and Delacroix.
Derivatives
diˈvisionist n. a painter who follows this practice; also attributive or as adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > neo-Impressionism or pointillism > artist
pointillist1891
tachist1891
neo-impressionist1892
divisionist1901
1901 L. Villari Giovanni Segantini 53 His ‘divisionist’ drawings.
1921 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 304 The most enthusiastic Divisionist discovered there were limits beyond which his theories could not be put into practice.
1926 F. V. P. Rutter Evol. Mod. Art 41 A Divisionist painter desiring a grey..places on his canvas little touches, say, of pure violet in juxtaposition to little touches of a yellowish green.
1971 Listener 4 Mar. 274/1 Pointillist or divisionist in detail.
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