| 单词 |
pointillism |
| 释义 |
pointillism|ˈpwɛ̃tɪlɪz(ə)m, ˈpwæn-|
Also ‖ -isme.
[ad. F. pointillisme, f. pointiller: see prec. and -ism.]
1. A method, invented by French impressionist painters, of producing luminous effects by crowding a surface with small spots of various colours, which are blended by the eye.
1901Daily Chron. 22 Oct. 3/2 Segantini..has broken the banalité of Alpine lines by the shimmering of his pointillisme. 1901[see neo-impressionism]. 1902Nation (N.Y.) 2 Jan. 16/3 He [Segantini] painted without any adherence to systematic process, but used pointillisme as it served his purpose. 1904Athenæum 2 Apr. 441/1 Modern Dutch artists..seem to be taking pointillism with a stolid seriousness which its inventors never can have intended. 1947Bergström & Taylor tr. Bergström's Dutch Still-Life Painting 17th Cent. vi. 232 His broad and free handling is set off by a spirited pointillisme in some passages. 1976New Yorker 15 Mar. 28/2 The murals are a triumph of Japanese pointillism.
2. transf. spec. Mus., the breaking up of the musical texture into thematic, rhythmic, and tonal fragments.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 32 In the pointillism of its scoring, La Mer represents the apex of Debussy's impressionist manner. 1959Times 4 Apr. 10/2 Hamilton's music has been moving towards serialism for some time, and in this sonata he finds himself up to the elbows in neo-Webernist pointillisme. 1972S. Hynes Edwardian Occasions 166 Mrs [Beatrice] Webb..created another character..by a large number of small strokes—a kind of literary pointillism. 1973Daily Tel. 19 Mar. 14/2 A happy synthesis of recent techniques and time-hallowed devices, of chords and clusters, speech-slides and sung intervals, pointillism and canon. 1976Visible Language X. 59 A piece of the once-voguish art of typewriter pointillisme. |
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