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= Patchism =

Patchism is a new technique of painting in which irregular shaped patches of complimentary and contrasting colour are applied in patterns to form an image. An Australian digital artist, Neil Sweeny, developed the technique in 2016 and Patchism branches from the Impressionism movement, Pointillism. "Pointillism" was developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in 1886. It was so named in the late 1880's and coined by art critics as being very childlike in appearance using small, distinct dots of colour which were arranged in patterns that blended to form an image. The movement and technique went on to be known as Neo-Impressionism. A similar technique using larger cube-like brushstrokes was developed by the Divisionists. It is no longer ridiculed today and can also be seen in Modernist art techniques like "Dottism".