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Pointillism

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Short description of the movement and a list of artists.
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Pointillism: Artists and their Works  Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is an offshoot of Impressionism, and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, except...
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pointillism.html

Article about the movement.
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Pointillism Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Pointillism is a style of painting in which non-primary colors are generated, not by the mixing of pigments in the palette nor by using pigments directly, but by the visual mixing of points of primary colors, placed in close proximity...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism

Study of a pointillist painting "Under the Lamp" by Dubois-Pillet.
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Pointillism  As with our previous visits, we interrogated this painting to learn more about its origins, its subject, and other aspects of the work. We discussed the contents of Under the Lamp and speculated as to their purpose and meaning. The...
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Emerson/lesson3.html