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n. - A painter who uses the technique of painting by a series of dots and small strokes adj. - Of or relating to the technique of painting by a series of dots and small strokes.

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  • That kind of pointilist, living-room minimalism is a common thread here, right from the opening cut, “Fast Trilogy.”
  • About two minutes into the second cut on Dual’s album, a track titled “Kattus,” you can hear the beading — a kind of pointilist reverb — that Pete Townshend employed on...
  • A minimalist painting by day, but by night, it becomes a bravura pointilist masterpiece.
  • It presents a pointilist cascade that generates, in me, a flickering of emotions–a long gaze at fire.
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