art movement vs pointillism

pointillism vs art movement

art movement and pointillism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
art movement	Yes	No	No	No
pointillism	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pointillism is a hyponym of art movement; that is, pointillism is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than art movement:

art movement: a group of artists who agree on general principles
pointillism: a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France

Other hyponyms of art movement include Abstract Expressionism, action painting, Ash Can, Ashcan school, Impressionism, Pop Art, Ashcan School, Eight, art deco, deco, art nouveau, avant-garde, new wave, van, vanguard, constructivism, suprematism, cubism, dada, dadaism, expressionism, fauvism, futurism, Hudson River school, romantic realism, imagism, lake poets, luminism, minimal art, minimalism, reductivism, naturalism, realism, neoromanticism, New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, secession, sezession, surrealism, symbolism, Caravaggism, spatialism, Ultraism, acmeism, aleatoric music, aleatory music, chance music, bruitism, neue wilden, artificialism, anti-theatre, folklorism, miserabilism, literary movement.

art movement (noun)	pointillism (noun)
a group of artists who agree on general principles	a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
	a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France

Difference between art movement and pointillism

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