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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
Garry Trudeau

Meaning of "pointillist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POINTILLIST

pointillist  [ˈpwæntɪˌlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POINTILLIST

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Pointillist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POINTILLIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pointillist

Pointillism

Pointillism /ˈpɔɪntɨlɪzəm/ is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term Pointillism was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation. Neo-impressionism and Divisionism are also terms used to describe this technique of painting called pointillism.

Definition of pointillist in the English dictionary

The definition of pointillist in the dictionary is a painter who uses the technique of pointillism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POINTILLIST


A-list
ˈeɪˌlɪst
B-list
ˈbiːˌlɪst
backlist
ˈbækˌlɪst
blacklist
ˈblækˌlɪst
checklist
ˈtʃɛkˌlɪst
Congregationalist
ˌkɒŋɡrɪˈɡeɪʃənəˌlɪst
greylist
ˈɡreɪˌlɪst
hand-list
ˈhændˌlɪst
hospitalist
ˈhɒspɪtəˌlɪst
nihilist
ˈnaɪɪˌlɪst
notaphilist
nəʊˈtæfɪˌlɪst
playlist
ˈpleɪˌlɪst
pointilliste
ˈpwæntɪˌlɪst
pteridophilist
ˌterɪˈdɒfɪˌlɪst
shitlist
ˈʃɪtˌlɪst
shortlist
ˈʃɔːtˌlɪst
stocklist
ˈstɒkˌlɪst
transfer-list
ˈtrænsfɜːˌlɪst
waitlist
ˈweɪtˌlɪst
watchlist
ˈwɒtʃˌlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POINTILLIST

pointed
pointed arch
pointel
pointelle
pointer
Pointers
pointille
pointillism
pointillisme
pointilliste
pointillistic
pointing
pointless
points
points dappui
points system
pointsman
pointy
pointy-head

WORDS THAT END LIKE POINTILLIST

A list
aquarellist
bimetallist
cellist
duellist
footballist
Gaullist
gold medallist
idyllist
labellist
medallist
metallist
monometallist
niellist
panellist
pastellist
phallist
silver medallist
triallist
vaudevillist
violoncellist

Synonyms and antonyms of pointillist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pointillist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POINTILLIST

Find out the translation of pointillist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pointillist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pointillist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

点彩画
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puntillista
570 millions of speakers

English

pointillist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pointillist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنقيطية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пуантилист
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pontilhista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pointillist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pointilliste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pointillist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pointillist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

点描画家
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pointillist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pointillist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pointillist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pointillist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेनिसिलिस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Puantilist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

divisionista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pointylistyczną
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пуантіліст
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pointilist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pointillist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pointillistische
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pointillist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pointillist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pointillist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTILLIST»

The term «pointillist» is normally little used and occupies the 117.696 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTILLIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pointillist

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3 QUOTES WITH «POINTILLIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pointillist.
1
Robert Irwin
The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature.
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Lynn Margulis
Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
3
Garry Trudeau
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POINTILLIST»

Discover the use of pointillist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pointillist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pointillist Rain
The Three Mile Marker is an introspective look into the life of a young man trying to overcome his past failures in a sport that he finds can be just as unyielding as life itself.
John W. Gorski, 2007
2
Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook
Some of the major Pointillist works contained millions of dots, so the technique was very laborious. However, creating your own Pointillist- inspired piece is easy in Photoshop, because the program includes a Pointillist filter that breaks up the ...
John Beardsworth, 2006
3
The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science
In general then, pointillist paintings are not brighter than brightly painted conventional works.155 Second, optical mixture of complementary-color pointillist dots produces nearly achromatic results, not the pure hues that Seurat and others ...
Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, 2001
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Ezra Pound
58. Conrad. Aiken,. 'A. Pointless. Pointillist',. Dial. October 191 8, lxv, 306-7 Aiken (b. 1889), a contemporary of Eliot's at Harvard, is an American poet, novelist and critic. His criticism collected in A Reviewer's ABC, edited by Rufus Blanshard ...
Eric Homberger, 2013
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Hands-On Art Activities for the Elementary Classroom: ...
3. POINTILLIST. AUTUMN. LANDSCAPE. Grade Level: 3–4 The painter Georges Seurat (1859–1891) developed the style of painting called Pointillism, using small spots of pure color. When viewed from a distance, the light rays reflected from ...
Jude Cataldo, 2006
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The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 5
But in my view, there are very few Pointillist paintings that are admired for much more than the artist's technique. Sure, Seurat, the great innovator, made great paintings (I like his earlier paintings and crayon drawings better). Signac wasted his ...
Red Wheelbarrow Poets, 2012
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Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the ...
Signac and Seurat were then experimenting with pointillist technique, and Pissarro was much taken with the new style. He wanted the two painters included in any future exhibition and prevailed on Degas to go along. The inclusion of the  ...
Philip Nord, 2014
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A Field Guide to a New Meta-field: Bridging the ...
Second-order image features are particularly prominent in pointillist paintings because pointillists used high-spatial-frequency components—small colored dots —to construct large-scale images. With the advent of computer monitors it is easy  ...
Barbara Maria Stafford, 2011
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Aesthetics of Total Serialism: Contemporary Research from ...
4 players Pointillist Centered 2 UNBEGRENZT ensemble Pointillist Centered 3 VERBINDUNG ensemble Scale Left margin 4 TREFFPUNXT ensemble Refrain Centered 5 NACHTMUSIK ensemble Mediation Centered 6 ABWARTS ensemble ...
Markus Bandur, 2001
10
Consuming Life
Pointillist time is more prominent for its inconsistency and lack of cohesion than for its elements of continuity and consistency; in this kind of time whatever continuity or causal logic may connect successive spots tends to be surmised and/or ...
Zygmunt Bauman, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POINTILLIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pointillist is used in the context of the following news items.
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LIVE REPORT: Soundscapes
She says she thinks it's a very similar process: that of the pointillist compared to how a "remix artist" works. I openly laugh in the screening room. «The Quietus, Jul 15»
2
Wolfsonian exhibit explores the artistry and social implications of the …
These are applied with darning and running stitches, mostly to buff-colored linen, often creating a pointillist optical mixing effect. The landscape ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
3
Washington DC to vote on $15-hour minimum wage in November …
One of the best visualizations of race in America might be called pointillist. By mapping one dot for every Census-registered human in the country, color-coded ... «Washington D.C. Sun Times, Jul 15»
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Exhibition review: Soundscapes at the National Gallery
Finally, it is back to water and light, with Théo van Rysselberghe's Coastal Scene, a Pointillist work of the 1890s. Jamie Smith, aka Jamie xx, ... «Country Life, Jul 15»
5
Touch the art, see Mr. Potato Head
One recreation of a pointillist work — an artistic style that consists of tiny dots of color rather than brushstrokes — features beads behind the ... «Suffolk News-Herald, Jul 15»
6
When Computers Assess Personality Better Than We Do
Remarkably, from these little pixels of disconnected opinion, a pattern-seeking computer can create a detailed pointillist picture of each of us in ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
7
Remembering E.L. Doctorow, author of 'Ragtime' and so much more
In "Ragtime," that pointillist painting of a novel in which he peppers his canvas with fictional versions of the likes of Harry Houdini and Henry ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
8
A lifelong love affair with art
... as she shuffles through her greeting card collection, each sheet different in styles from pointillist to abstract expressionist to impressionist. «Bancroft This Week, Jul 15»
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Written By Lorna Finnegan Posted: 07/21/2015, 09:59am
One of the best visualizations of race in America might be called pointillist. By mapping one dot for every Census-registered human in the country, color-coded ... «Washington D.C. Sun Times, Jul 15»
10
Outsider Angst
In his depiction of a monkey puppet named Jim and an eyeless teddy bear named Scruffy, Gill creates a pointillist pathos with hundreds of tiny ... «Weekly Alibi, Jul 15»

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