1. A late 19th-century movement in French painting that sought to improve on impressionism through a systematic approach to form and colour, particularly using pointillist technique
   "The neo-impressionism of Maximilien Luce and his supporter Robert Bernier, for instance, must be distinguished from that of Seurat and his champion Gustave Kahn, a difference that can be coded especially, but not exclusively, along lines of class and audience"

Type of: Post-Impressionism

Encyclopedia: Neo-Impressionism