neoimpressionism

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A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition
{i} late 19th-century French art movement based on pointillistic painting techniques
Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed
A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others
This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling)
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