divisionism

American

[dih-vizh-uh-niz-uhm] / dɪˈvɪʒ əˌnɪz əm /

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)

pointillism.

divisionism British

/ dɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm /

noun

the pointillism of Seurat and his followers

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divisionist

noun

Etymology

Origin of divisionism

First recorded in 1900–05; division + -ism

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divisionism

Nothing, one would think, could be addressed more purely to the eye than Seurat's divisionism, his way of analytically representing color and light by means of dots of pure pigment, stippled closely together.

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A voracious reader and experimentalist in these fields, he devised what became known as "divisionism."

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