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Pointillism was a revolutionary painting technique pioneered by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in Paris in the mid-1880s.

Points of pure colour: Pointillism involved the application of paint in carefully placed dots of pure, unmixed colour.

According to Seurat and Signac, these would be blended by the viewer's eye to create a more striking image than any made after mixing colours conventionally on a palette.

With the name originally being coined by art critics as a way to ridicule the technique, Pointillism developed as part of the Post-Impressionist movement in the late 1880s.