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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
Precisionist quartz
movement with a sweeping second hand provides incredible accuracy, a date window offers added functionality and luminous hands and markers offer easy readability any time of day.
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):
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.
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.