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neo-impressionism

neo-impressionism is the alternative spelling of neoimpressionism.

Meaning of neoimpressionism

Noun

neoimpressionism (uncountable)

  1. A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition.
    • The method, variously called pointillism, divisionism (separated colours) or neoimpressionism, is especially effective in the half-dozen monumental paintings Seurat considered his toiles de lutte (battle-canvases). […] Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or...2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15

Questions about neo-impressionism

What is neo-impressionism the alternative spelling of?
Neo-impressionism is the alternative spelling of neoimpressionism.

Words near neo-impressionism in the dictionary

  1. neo-imperial
  2. neo-imperialism
  3. neo-imperialisms
  4. neo-imperialist
  5. neo-imperialists
  6. neo-impressionism
  7. Neo-Kantian
  8. Neo-Kantianism
  9. Neo-Kantians
  10. neo-Kraepelinians
  11. neo-Lamarckian

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