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Noun: Divisionism
  1. The characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colours into individual dots or patches which interacted optically.
    "It was this form of divisionism, of which Sluijters was a chief representative, that brought about avant-garde painting in Amsterdam."

Type of: Impressionism

Encyclopedia: Divisionism