Pointillism Pointillism Pointillism () is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation. The movement Seurat began with this technique is known as Neo-impressionism. The Divisionists, too, used a similar technique of patterns to form images, though with larger cube-like brushstrokes. The technique relies on the ability of the
What Where Bam is not satisfied and a phrase is improved to add to the force of the theme. [The play can therefore be compared with "Krapp’s Last Tape" but it also] shares many similarities with "Ohio Impromptu", the identical characters in appearance and dress, the unwinding backwards of events and the stylization of image and movement in particular." With Krapp his memories have a certain degree of reliability. Not so with Bam. "[T]he figures in "What Where" emerge from beyond the grave, ghosts of memories that never really were." They are given form "as if they existed". "In this version the