Example Sentences

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Here the banners are rendered with the utmost economy, pared down to billowing blocks of color that seem to float above the road below, dwarfing the pointillist pedestrians who stroll beneath them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Her own pointillist lyrics and made-for-moodboards underwater imagery captured her peers’ ambient loneliness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

Howardena Pindell, also in the show, climbed the ladder as a curator at MoMA for over a decade while developing her style of abstract, pointillist collage.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2023

He was the French painter Jules, a rival of pointillist master Georges Seurat, in Sondheim’s 1984 musical “Sunday in the Park With George.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023

An entire stretch of the alleyway is coated in chewed pieces of gum, a sticky, pointillist rainbow across the bricks.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day