How to Use pointillism in a Sentence

pointillism

noun

• Quantum is like pointillism—a world made up of little dots.
  — Time, 25 May 2021
• But the sky and sun toward which the bird flies are created using pointillism.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 29 July 2019
• Just like the Seurat painting, minus the class status and pointillism.
  — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Ruscha employs a kind of sonic pointillism to create swirling melodies and softened rhythms.
  — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• However trite the plots, Hitchcock was an artist working in pointillism.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2015
• One man’s pointillism is another man’s poison, of course, and your Seattle Art Fair highlights may not overlap with mine at all.
  — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 4 Aug. 2017
• The results, shown on giant screens or projected onto walls or entire buildings, use data points in a kind of AI pointillism.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 16 Jan. 2020
• At Chauvet Cave, large dots created using the palm of the hand are used to represent animals like bison in a very early use of pointillism.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
• But don’t go too dotty about this instance of prehistoric pointillism, art experts caution.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• Is there a sort of pointillism equivalent for film in digital stuff next to the more watercolor-y way actual film stock behaves?
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 25 Aug. 2018
• In the four corners of the ceiling, sunlight streams through windows of Russian blue glass painted by the local Aboriginal artist Sharron Ohlsen, who also employs pointillism in her work.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• Dodge’s quasi-figurative pictures also hark back to the pointillism of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, another short-lived but influential movement focused on the way vision works.
  — David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Polka Dot Remember pointillism from your Art History 101 class?
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 14 Sep. 2018
• His art evolved around that time, not toward despair or sadness but experiments in pointillism and swirls of color inspired by chemical reactions.
  — Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• The Singer Laren's collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• Abigail Fischer sings the piece vividly, with members of Sequitur, conducted by Jayce Ogren, moving easily through the score’s episodes of pointillism, stateliness and hazy dissonance.
  — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 30 May 2018
• Seldom is this a problem when landing at an airport, since the trees, telephone poles, and air traffic control towers create a concrete referential pointillism easily processed by the eye.
  — Eric Lindner, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2021
• Meltzer’s Piano Quartet, which alternates between prickly pointillism and full-voiced lyricism, makes an inviting curtain-raiser.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• My kids always find Georges Seurat's pointillism fascinating.
  — Anna Lane, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2020
• Instead of heavy breathing and heaving bodices, this adaptation owes more to the pointillism of Wes Anderson, with its dioramic compositions, brightly colored symmetries, and fishbowl sets.
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
• The museum houses the collection of American couple William and Anna Singer, with a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
• Her signature sound, in which ethereal vocal pointillism details the upper limits of sensual songs driven by bouncing beats, expresses Twigs’s embrace of embodiment as well as her penchant for the abstract.
  — Emily J. Lordi Photographs By Liz Johnson Artur, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• What’s behind pointillism is divisionism, the new scientific theories of light and color and ocular perception.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• What’s behind pointillism is divisionism, the new scientific theories of light and color and ocular perception.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• Roxi Satni: @roxitattoo Roxi Satni specializes in blackwork, pointillism, and geometric tattooing.
  — Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 2 Apr. 2018
• With his development of pointillism, Seurat painted tiny juxtaposed dots in varying colors to further disintegrate images beyond those of the impressionists.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
• Cox’s style might be described as dynamic pointillism, with breathy instrumental noises giving way to mournfully wailing glissandi, and then to a climactic stampede of frantic figuration.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021

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