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That kind of pointilist, living-room minimalism is a common thread here, right from the opening cut, “Fast Trilogy.”
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About two minutes into the second cut on Dual’s album, a track titled “Kattus,” you can hear the beading — a kind of pointilist reverb — that Pete Townshend employed on “Baba O’Riley” and, much later, “Eminence Front”.
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There are pictures from Mexico, Japan, Switzerland—abstract landscapes, orange and red sunsets, expanses of shimmering water that evoke pointilist paintings.
A Long Path to a Belated Introduction Vibhuti Patel 2011
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It presents a pointilist cascade that generates, in me, a flickering of emotions – a long gaze at fire.
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There are pictures from Mexico, Japan, Switzerland—abstract landscapes, orange and red sunsets, expanses of shimmering water that evoke pointilist paintings.
A Long Path to a Belated Introduction Vibhuti Patel 2011
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It presents a pointilist cascade that generates, in me, a flickering of emotions–a long gaze at fire.
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A minimalist painting by day, but by night, it becomes a bravura pointilist masterpiece.
Decibel Landscape 2005
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A minimalist painting by day, but by night, it becomes a bravura pointilist masterpiece.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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The pointilist movement is that kind of paintings where everything is broken down into dots and pixels And then I-- this sort of thing is ideal for tidying up.
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But yeah, and it's great, you can even go, you know -- Or we have this pointilist movement for those of you who are into art.
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