neo-impressionistn.adj.
/ˌniːəʊɪmˈprɛʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌniːəʊɪmˈprɛʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌnioʊᵻmˈprɛʃənəst/ Art.
A. n.
An adherent or practitioner of neo-impressionism.
ΘΚΠ
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
1892 Mag. of Art p. xxxv/1 M. Camille Pissaro, a neo-impressionist in his pictures, betrays Japanese influence in his woodcuts.
1903 Studio 29 112/1 Coteries of artists..have..tried to ‘go one better’, the most formidable and temporarily successful being that of the ‘Néo-Impressionists’.
1938 Burlington Mag. June 289/2 A confirmed disciple of the neo-impressionists.
1975 Physics Bull. Feb. 59/2 Our start is the beginning of the 20th century, taking for granted the legacy of Leonardo Da Vinci, photography and the effects of the theories of colour on the neoimpressionists.
1990 Field Feb. 23/1 Only later—with the Neo-Impressionists Seurat and Signac in particular—did artists become concerned with new techniques and scientific theories of light and colour.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of neo-impressionism or the neo-impressionists.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > neo-Impressionist or pointillist
pointillist1902
neo-impressionist1905
pointillistic1922
1905 Sat. Rev. 11 Feb. 174 The ‘Neo-Impressionist’ or Pointillist painting.
1944 Burlington Mag. Apr. 104/1 A history of the whole Neo-Impressionist movement.
1972 Country Life 23 Nov. 1369/2 These artists' [sc. Futurists'] neo-Impressionist brushwork and Expressionist colour is invariably awful.
1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds v. 148 Picasso encountered..the neoimpressionist works of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1892