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pointillist

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1. pointillist - Noun

2. pointillist - Adjective

3. pointillist - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

a painter who uses the technique of pointillism

of or relating to pointillism

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The Pointillist chooses a means of expression by which he applies colour on a canvas in small dots rather than spreading it flat. Paul Signac

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings. Lynn Margulis

But he traces his history with scrupulous precision, and along the way he treats us to charming, pointillist portraits of historical figures who are presumed to have had Asperger’s, including Henry Cavendish and Nikola Tesla. Source: Internet

The effect is a little like standing very close to a pointillist painting then stepping back. Source: Internet

Wilkerson's sprawling study of the flight of six million blacks from the humiliation of Jim Crow to uncertain destinies in the American North and West is expansive in scope, pointillist in focus, and a triumph of scholarship and empathy. Source: Internet

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