Sentences with phrase «american precisionist»

This tour - de-force presentation includes key paintings by American Precisionists such as Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth, and iconic works by the masters of straight photography such as Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, and Edward Steichen.

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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):

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist - inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape.

A later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s.

This will be the first exhibition to explore the «cool» in American art in the early 20th century, from early experiments in abstraction by artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Paul Strand to the strict, clean precisionist paintings of Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth.

The Ashmolean Museum's latest exhibition examines this early 20th century American pride and optimism; but also touches on something potentially frightening about the Precisionist painters» expression of that «Modernist soul».

Instead, his straightforward depiction of walkways, clouds and trees gives rise to an order that feels very natural — something very different from the comparatively contrived compositions favored by the Luminists, the Precisionists or the American Impressionists.

In doing so, the artist establishes a dialogue with the Precisionists, the optimistic American modernist movement that emerged in the 1920s, and included artists such as Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth.

Charles Sheeler: Across Media (Feb. 10 - May 6, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum) A small but elegant show that examines how the «Precisionist» Sheeler moved among painting, photography and film at a time when few other American artists thought much about the differences that varying media made in images» meaning and impact.

Influenced by European art movements of the early twentieth century, American Modernists including the Precisionist Charles Sheeler and Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb emphasize the industrial, the international, or the psychological through gesture, texture, surface, geometry, shape, form and color.

Stella is considered an important figure in American art history and is associated with the Futurist and Precisionist movements, gaining contact with prominent members of the New York art scene such as Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Stein, Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp.

All of the artists on display express «modern» with a fascinatingly detached eye; this was the new American aesthetic and the Precisionist movement of the period considered itself to be strictly American, and reluctant to acknowledge the European influences of Cubism and Futurism.

This is the first exhibition to explore the «cool» in American art in the early 20th century, from early experiments in abstraction by artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Paul Strand to the strict, clean precisionist paintings of Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth.

Among Charles Demuth's best known 20th century paintings in the Precisionist idiom include: My Egypt (1927, Whitney Museum of American Art), and Buildings Abstraction, Lancaster (1931, Detroit Institute of Arts).

From experiments in abstraction to precisionist paintings, this major exhibition explores the cool in early 20th - century American Art.