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It’s an attempt to erase it and, like a pointillist painting, focus on only one dot while ignoring the big picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
Seen through a microscope, a hogfish's skin looks like a pointillist painting.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023
During his final 20 years, Bertoia developed an army of minimalist sculptures with long rods that waved like fields of grain, producing tidal washes of luminous overtones or pointillist symphonies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
An entire stretch of the alleyway is coated in chewed pieces of gum, a sticky, pointillist rainbow across the bricks.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
