Precisionism
Precisionism defines a 1920s American art movement preoccupied with depicting the reality of the modern world and the rapidly-increasing industrialization that followed World War I. Precisionist artists often used industrial architecture and skylines in their works to convey a sense of America’s modernity. The Precisionist concept sought to represent the modern world in reduced, simplified forms.
Though initially likened to the style of Art Deco, Precisionism quickly demonstrated that it was not focused on the
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Precisionism
Precisionism defines a 1920s American art movement preoccupied with depicting the reality of the modern world and the rapidly-increasing industrialization that followed World War I. Precisionist artists often used industrial architecture and skylines in their works to convey a sense of America’s modernity. The Precisionist concept sought to represent the modern world in reduced, simplified forms.
Though initially likened to the style of Art Deco, Precisionism quickly demonstrated that it was not focused on the subject of high society that dominated Art Deco works. Instead, Precisionists produced works exhibiting America’s urban landscape with flat planes and a sharp, precise geometrical composition that excluded human figures. Precisionists such as Charles Sheeler, Peter Bloom, and Charles Demuth developed techniques that exemplified Precisionist tenants by elevating modernity’s ordinary objects and constructions into smooth, clearly lit, and crisply-defined structures worth viewing.
The Precisionist movement itself was decidedly informal, and its artists were united more by common ideas than written manifestos. Precisionists’ regard for pure form influenced Pop Art, Magical Realism, and Abstraction. (hide)
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