Sentences with phrase «precisionism for»
He paints the Brooklyn Bridge after Joseph Stella because Walt Whitman had celebrated it before them both, and he loved Demuth's Precisionism for quoting William Carlos Williams.
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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):
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism in American Art requires a $ 16 ticket with discounts for seniors, students, and military.
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.
He, along with Sheeler, is known for his early adoption of Cubism, participation in Dada, and later influence in Precisionism.
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.