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Record 1 1986-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
DEF

application of paint in the so-called primary colours to the canvas not in patches, but in dots or squares ....

CONT

But this extreme technique, which became known as pointillism, naturally endangered the legibility of his paintings by avoiding all contours and breaking up every form into areas of multi-coloured dots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
DEF

représentation des nuances des principales teintes par des points sphériques ou par de petits carrés.

CONT

Ce divisionnisme, il le différencie nettement du pointillisme, procédé qui n'en est que le moyen technique.

Spanish

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