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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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He left behind him many highly respected and extremely expensive paintings which changed the course of Neo-Impressionism forever.
Up close, the works threaten to dissolve, an unlikely neo-impressionism.
The titles of the different movements of the symphonic piece for large orchestra The Parables are inspired by the literary works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Georges Neveux (Parable of the Statue, The Garden, The Boat), but this is not so much programmatic music as free fantasy, a kind of neo-impressionism deriving once again from the music of Debussy.
 
 
 
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