Robert Irwin

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature.

American Artist

Lynn Margulis

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

American Scientist

Garry Trudeau

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

American Cartoonist

Pointillist implies a distinct painting method that creates images from tiny colored dots.

Visual Technique

Don't confuse pointillist with impressionism; pointillism uses precise dots, not brush strokes.

Not Impressionism

Appreciating pointillist art takes time, viewing from different distances reveals the full effect.

Patient Observation

Pointillist refers to a style that is characterized by its method, not just the subject of the artwork.

Distinctive Style

Pointillist techniques may challenge conventional color mixing, engaging the viewer’s eye to blend color.

Color Mixing

Using 'pointillist' can also imply a time-consuming process intrinsic to the creation of the artwork.

Time-Intensive

 There's a wonderful stream of consciousness here and if you follow it along, you learn a lot about this man. What I particularly like about this picture, too, is that Steinberg has rendered the guy in this sort of pointillist style.