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Here the banners are rendered with the utmost economy, pared down to billowing blocks of color that seem to float above the road below, dwarfing the pointillist pedestrians who stroll beneath them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Zoom out and these pointillist patterns are colorful doubles of the black-and-white photographs of baobab trees mounted in the foreground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
Seen through a microscope, a hogfish's skin looks like a pointillist painting.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023
Howardena Pindell, also in the show, climbed the ladder as a curator at MoMA for over a decade while developing her style of abstract, pointillist collage.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
The individual effect of a gene, Fisher argued, was like a dot of a pointillist painting.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
