"pointillisms" in the noun sense
1. pointillism
a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
2. pointillism
a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
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