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Neo-Impressionism
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ne·o·im·pres·sion·ism or ne·o-im·pres·sion·ism  (n-m-prsh-nzm)
n.
A movement in late 19th-century painting led by Georges Seurat that was stricter and more formal than impressionism in composition and employed pointillism as a technique.
neo·im·pression·ist adj. & n.
Neo-Impressionism
Pointillism.
See also: Art
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But from a distance, Collins' subject matter comes effectively into play, in a manner similar to the paintings of French neo-impressionist Georges Seurat -- think of Seurat's seminal work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886), in which, from a distance less than the optimum viewing range of 10 feet, the representationalism of the subject matter starts to break down into the small dabs of color Seurat used to construct the scene.
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