Word: pointillist
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...figurative. Garish, unnatural colors seem to be a prerequisite. And much bad art just contains bad subject matter (take, for instance, a bovine form precipitating down what appears to be a waterfall in “Suicide,” or George Seurat relieving himself in the pointillist-style “Sunday on the Pot with George...
...alternative is what investigators call the in-family studies, a much more pointillist process, requiring an exhaustive look at a single family, comparing every child with every other child and then repeating the process again and again with hundreds of other families. Eventually, you may find threads that link them all. "I would throw out all the between-family studies," says Cleveland. "The proof is in the in-family design...
...each point of light have been calculated, those data are converted directly into the pixels, or picture elements, that make up the images on the computer's screen. Each pixel is either red, green or blue. When viewed from a distance, however, they coalesce like the dots in a pointillist painting. Says Lucasfilm's Cook: "It's like mixing paint. If you stand back, they all blend together...
...purely modern, the dialogue presents a curious marriage of the ancient and the current. Stylistically, the words maintain a poetic, terse quality reminiscent of the original Medea. The prose here is succinct yet hazy, building up meaning though many small declarations rather than direct statements, as if a pointillist painting...
...Eug?ne Chevreul, who held that each color gives off a halo of its complementary color and that adjoining dots of different hue would be blended by the eye. Adjacent spots of blue and yellow, for instance, would create a joint aureole of green. From that idea Seurat developed his pointillist technique. But the Chicago show, which was guest-curated by scholar Robert L. Herbert, takes pains to remind us that Seurat was never truly bound to it. In an age that worshipped science - even socialism had been made ?scientific? - pointillism appeared to lend his art the authority of science...