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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
Perhaps the best - known painting which will be exhibited is the famous Saw the Figure 5 in Gold painted in 1928
by Charles Demuth, a prominent figure of
Precisionism.
Their collective approach to art - making is steeped in academic discourse, and whilst retaining the vibrancy of their graffiti backgrounds, traditional art movements such as Futurism, Abstract Expressionism and
Precisionism are also embraced
by the visual vocabulary imbued within their work.
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.
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 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.
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.
Bernarducci's inaugural Chelsea show, New
Precisionism, brought together paintings and photographs
by 19 artists, including John Baeder, Nathan Walsh, and Sally Davies.
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Precisionism (fl. 1920s) Style of realist painting influenced
by Futurism and Cubism.
• 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.
In simple terms, Hard - edge painting - which recalls the
Precisionism associated with the De Stijl theories and Neo-Plasticism of Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), as well as works
by Josef Albers (1888 - 1976)- combines the clear imagery of geometric abstraction with the intense hues of Colour Field Painting.
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.
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).
Trained in an impressionist approach to landscape painting, Sheeler experimented early in his career with compositions inspired
by European modernism before developing a linear, hard - edged style now known as
Precisionism.
Another influence on modern painting in America was
Precisionism (or Cubist Realism, 1920s), whose focus was modern industry and urban landscapes, characterized
by the realistic portrayal of objects but in a way that also highlighted their geometric form.