Pointillism | Pointillism is a painting technique where small dots of unmixed color are carefully placed next to each other. Painters like Pissarro diverged from the Impressionists while embracing this technique, yet still embodied the Impressionists' non-traditional mindset.

Pointillism
Small dots of pure color are placed next to each other

Not Pointillism
Paint is mixed and applied in strokes

Camille Pissarro, La Récolte des Foins, Éragny, 1887, oil on canvas, 19.6 x 25.9 in., Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Edgar Degas, Dancers, 1899, Pastel with charcoal on tracing paper, 23 1/8 x 18 1/4 in., Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey.

Pointillism | Pointillism is a painting technique where small dots of unmixed color are carefully placed next to each other. Painters like Pissarro diverged from the Impressionists while embracing this technique, yet still embodied the Impressionists' non-traditional mindset.

Pointillism
Small dots of pure color are placed next to each other

Not Pointillism
Paint is mixed and applied in strokes

Camille Pissarro, Two Young Peasant Women, 1891-92, oil on canvas, 35.2 x 45.9 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Claude Monet, In the garden, 1895, oil on canvas, 32 x 36.2 in., Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle Collection, Zürich.