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Definition of Neoimpressionism

Neoimpressionism
Neoimpressionism Ne`o*im*pres"sion*ism, n. (Painting) A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

Meaning of Neoimpressionism from wikipedia

- Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's most renowned...
- paintings focused on color. His early paintings were deeply rooted in Neoimpressionism which he abandoned later. His writings on color, which were influenced...
- movements of the beginning of the 20th century. After going through neoimpressionism and divisionism, he created simultanism, with his wife, Sonia Delaunay...
- Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar. It was there he came into contact with Neoimpressionism but, after experimenting with that style, turned decisively away from...
- Rod. He was also exposed to the latest styles in painting, such as Neoimpressionism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau and began painting himself, during summers...
- being transformed into music". In painting, pointillism (also termed Neoimpressionism) is a late 19th-century method in which small "points" (dots or strokes)...
- "emotion and multiple states of mind" using techniques derived from Neoimpressionism style (for example, Severini's The Black Cat or The Obsessive Dancer)...
- viewers rather than on the canvas. It is also called divisionism or neoimpressionism. Pop Art – movement that began in Britain and the United States in...