divisionism

American  

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

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)

1. pointillism.

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divisionism British  

/ dɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. the pointillism of Seurat and his followers

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Other Word Forms

• divisionist noun

Etymology

Origin of divisionism

First recorded in 1900–05; division + -ism

Example Sentences

Chia can run up a good-looking, hyperactive surface�all those squiggles out of Cy Twombly and the flecks of color applied in an ornamental parody of futurist "divisionism" are cute as kittens.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive