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Painting by dots, letting your retina do the mixing the artist refused to.

means A late-19th-century painting technique that separates color into distinct dots or strokes of pure pigment, left unmixed on the canvas so the viewer's eye optically blends them from a distance.

from From 'divide' plus the '-ism' suffix marking a movement or doctrine — the name simply describes the method: dividing color into its component touches rather than mixing it on the palette. It's closely tied to Pointillism (the technique named for its literal points of paint) and to the broader Neo-Impressionist movement associated with painters like Seurat and Signac, who grounded the approach in contemporary theories of optics and color perception.

not pointillism
technique is theory, pointillism is just the dots
founder
seurat formalized it as scientific color theory
the trick
unmixed colors blend optically, not on palette
peak example
a sunday on la grande jatte, two years to paint
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