texturologyn.
A term coined by Jean-Philippe-Arthur Dubuffet (1901–85) for a kind of painting created by him, composed of minute drops of paint entirely covering a flat surface.
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texturology1959
1959 J. A. Thwaites in Arts Yearbk. III. 134/2 In the Texturologies..he [sc. Jean Dubuffet] has pulverized the form and color as never before.
1964 New Statesman 1 May 695/2 Dubuffet's finely granulated texturologies.
1973 Art Internat. Mar. 30/2 I don't want to comment here on the nature of Dubuffet's ‘texturologies’.
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