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What does pointillism mean?

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Noun
  1. In art, the use of small areas of color to construct an image.
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Sure it requires physical skill, but so does painting, and I don't see anybody training to win the gold in pointillism.
But the selective pointillism that picks it out identifies an essential pre-requisite for effective political action.
New to the body-painting arena is the airbrushing of makeup using a process called pointillism, a form of art borrowed from the French impressionists.
The artist combines elegant lines, wiggles and pointillism to create an atmosphere of surreal spaces surrounding the character.
Villa, in short, puts forward an argument for his own artistry, comparing his work to Seurat's pointillism.
His brush strokes tend towards a dabbing that has its origins in Monet's Impressionism and reached its excess in pointillism.

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