Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [image-making processes and techniques]
6. [painting and painting techniques]
7. painting techniques
8. [painting techniques by application method or circumstances]

Anotations

Scope note:

Painting technique whereby tones and hues are obtained by applying regular small dots or touches of unmixed pigment on the canvas so that they combine optically. The French critic Félix Fénéon coined the term "peinture au point" in 1886 after seeing Seurat's "La Grande Jatte." Paul Signac offered the alternative term of "divisionism" in his book "D'Eugène Delacroix au Néo-Impressionnisme (1899), although in modern usage "pointillism" is reserved for the technique involving dots applied in a controlled manner, while "divisionism" refers to use of marks of unmixed color in Italian painters’ works.