pointillistic
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English
Etymology
From pointillist + -ic, from Pointillism.
Adjective
pointillistic (comparative more pointillistic, superlative most pointillistic)
- Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image.
- a pointillistic work of art
- (by extension) Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism.
- 2008 December 12, Jon Pareles, “Hey, Kids! Care for a Little Minimalism With Your Dance Grooves?”, in The New York Times:
- Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions.
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Pointillism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
