Sentences with phrase «precisionist artists»

About Ralston Crawford Ralston Crawford (1906 - 1978) is predominantly known for his abstract representations of urban life and industry, and his early work is frequently associated with Precisionist artists such as Charles Sheeler and Stuart Davis.

Charles Demuth, a Precisionist artist influenced by post-Cubism, produced a homage to the artist.

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In a selection of paintings with an architectural focus, we aim to show that these Precisionist characteristics used by artists of the 1930s - 1940s were modified only slightly by new narratives contributed by national and international social events.»

Sheeler and Hopper were both considered to be precisionists, which drew from industrial landscapes and featured the sharp, definitive lines both artists convey.

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.

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.

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.

If such early works have a precisionist care in how they are painted that recalls early Renaissance painters like Pietro Lorenzetti or Domenico Veneziano, as much as they do product advertisements and packaging design from the 1920s, later works offer a bolder more sculptural approach, and suggests a whole other range of range of artists who followed Davis, including Elizabeth Murray and Al Held.