Precisionism
プレシジョニズム / 1910s–1940s / Style / American Modern Art
Paints factories, silos, cities and machines reduced to clear contour, simple geometry and smooth planes.
Sharp contours / Industrial landscapes / Geometric simplification / Smooth surfaces
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
- Type
- Observe the type and composition of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one principle that steers the eye
- Material
- Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
- Caution
- Check not only the look but the medium, technique and social context in which it formed.
- Further study
- Charles Sheeler / Charles Demuth / Georgia O'Keeffe