Broken colour: Technique of applying color in small brushstrokes, that will blend when viewed at a distance.
They used a rainbow palette and experimented with various techniques of broken colour.
Broken Colour
A technique introduced by Impressionist painters (notably Neo-Impressionists), whereby colours on the canvas are made up of small flecks and dashes of paint.
aim in favour of more ambitious expression, admitting their debt, however, to the pure, brilliant colours of Impressionism, its freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with short brushstrokes of broken colour.
In the works dating from 1977 to 1983, whose main theme is the Café Deutschland, thickly applied, broken colours in various nuances of light and shade predominate; pure, brilliant, unmixed colours are nowhere to be seen.
Pointillism is a branch of French Impressionism and describes a system of painting in which the principle of optical mixture or broken colour was carried to the extreme of applying colour in tiny dots or small, isolated strokes.
Taking as a point of departure the Impressionist practice of using broken colour to suggest shimmering light, he sought to achieve luminosity through optical formulas, ...
 See also: Movement, Expression, Impression, Painting, Impressionism
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