Sentences with phrase «american precisionism»

Other influences include exponents of American Precisionism of the 1930s, such as Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) and Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935).

Cubism had a strong influence on the urban landscapes of the American Precisionism movement, led by Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935) and Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965).

Her work references Cubism, Futurism, and American Precisionism as well as earlier historical predecessors — trompe l'oeil artists such as John Peto and William Harnett.

American Precisionism group exhibition.

Connections between the past and the present will be explored throughout this large - scale survey, which will feature more than 100 masterworks of American Precisionism by such modernists as Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth.

One may be tempted to situate Commito within a modernist lineage celebrating the machine and the city (think Italian Futurism or American Precisionism), but Commito is more interested in entropy and folk architecture than paeans to progress.

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«Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art» is at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through August 12, 2018, after which it will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art from September 9, 2018 through January 6, 2019.

Butler's title for the show is Precisionist Casual, which invokes the early American modernist movement, Precisionism, which was practiced by Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth, as well as the New Casualists, a term she coined in an essay published in The Brooklyn Rail (June 2011):

The Cult of the Machine: Precisionism in American Art, by Emma Acker with Sue Canterbury, Adrian Daub, and Lauren Palmor, is published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / de Young in association with Yale University Press.

I recognized the name from a favorite painting in the Whitney, by Charles Sheeler, one that the museum has since displayed not as Cubism or Precisionism but as American Surrealism.

«Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art.»

Cult of the Machine: Precisionism in American Art requires a $ 16 ticket with discounts for seniors, students, and military.

If I had to describe the architectural design in terms of American painting, I'd say it's a mash up of Charles Demuth or Elsie Drigg's Precisionism (on view on the eighth floor) and the expressive, clunky form of Arthur Dove or Marsden Hartley.

Borne out of early twentieth - century anxieties and uncertainties created by an industrial boom, the Precisionism movement merged European formal styles, like Cubism and Futurism, with distinctly American subject matter.

Architecture critic Martin Filler penned an appreciation of «Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art» at San Francisco's de Young Museum and its «cocktail shakers that look like skyscrapers, skyscrapers that look like cocktail shakers, paintings that resemble photographs, cars reminiscent of zeppelins.»

Elsie Driggs (1898 — July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern - art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils.

These displays of European art were augmented by solo exhibitions for American modernists like Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943), John Marin (1870 - 1953) and Arthur Dove (1880 - 1946), and Cubist - Realists like Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935), Paul Strand (1890 - 1976) and Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965), the leader of Precisionism.

An important figure in early 20th century American art, the painter and photographer Charles Sheeler was - along with Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935)- the leading exponent of Precisionism, a style of architectural painting that combined the hi - tech aesthetics of Futurism with the sharp geometrics of Analytical Cubism in the depiction of factories, power stations, warehouses and other industrial plant, of the new technological age.

An important influence on modern art painting in the United States, Precisionism was an American movement (also referred to as Cubist Realism) whose focus was modern industry and urban landscapes, characterized by the realistic depiction of objects but in a manner which also highlighted their geometric form.

Precisionism typically characterizes American paintings and works on paper produced between the two World Wars that employ a linear aesthetic, pronounced contours and localized colors to depict architectural, infrastructural, mechanical and often urban imagery.

The gallery handles artwork from early 20th - century movements including American Modernism, African American Art, Social Realism, Regionalism, Magic Realism, and Precisionism by such artists as Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Bluemner, Paul Cadmus, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, PaJaMa, Fairfield Porter, Ben Shahn, and others.

Specific painting movements included the Ashcan School (c.1900 - 1915); Precisionism (1920s) which celebrated the new American industrial landscape; the more socially aware urban style of Social Realism (1930s); American Scene Painting (c.1925 - 45) which embraced the work of Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield, as well as midwestern Regionalism (1930s) championed by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry.

• American Painting and Sculpture to 1945 This wide - ranging collection illustrates several American styles, including American Scene Painting, Regionalism, Precisionism among others, with works by George Inness, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, and many others.

The Phillips» collection began as a museum of modern art, exemplifying Paris - based European art movements such as French Realism (c. 1850 onwards) Impressionism (c.1873 - 83), Post-Impressionism (c. 1880 onwards), Fauvism, Intimism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Symbolism, and Cubism, before taking on 20th century styles such as Precisionism, American Realism, Ashcan School, Abstract Expressionism, Colour Field painting, Kinetic art, and geometric abstract art.

Numerous exhibitions and catalogue essays include Reordering Reality: Precisionism in America 1915 - 1941 (1994), Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America (1999), Will Barnet: A Timeless World (2000), Cézanne and American Modernism (2009), Warhol and Cars: American Icons (2011), and The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 (2013).

Balancing the tangible and the abstract, Menconi + Schoelkopf, also from New York, will present work by the Canadian artistRalston Crawford, a luminary of Precisionism — a uniquely American Modernist Movement.

Precisionism History, Characteristics, American Industrial Landscape Painting.

If there are identifiable affinities or sources for such a style, they are likely to be found in the precisionism of Charles Sheeler and certain other varieties of American Cubism, as well as the geometric abstraction of Piet Mondrian.