Sentences with phrase «precisionist works»

From early Precisionist works to his last figurative series, Haines continued to subdivide his compositions in intriguing ways.

This trip resulted in two Precisionist works, «Aeroplane» and «River Rouge.»

[7] However, Driggs» use of «ray lines» (slender black lines that criss - cross the canvas, recall Precisionist works by Charles Demuth, and particularly his «My Egypt» (also from 1927).

Through over 100 of these precisionist works, this exhibition explores the optimism and anxiety over rapidly advancing technology between the two World Wars.

Not exact matches

Two virtually identical Sheeler works in «Cult of the Machine» epitomize the hermetic nature of the Precisionist project.

Butler works with canvas as well as the stretcher, but she refuses to stretch it, and her precisionist geometry remains studiously imprecise and incomplete.

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).

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.

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.

At the same time that Driggs exhibited her Precisionist machine age works at the Daniel Gallery, she was also creating a series of important plant forms, both in pastel and oil, for the same gallery.

This precise and detached aesthetic can be seen throughout the works; and is at the centre of the curatorial narrative, beginning with a focus on objects, restricting, eliminating, and reducing the painterly form; which is later employed in the Precisionist's representation of the modern dehumanised landscape.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Photography by no means played second fiddle to Charles Sheeler's work as a Precisionist painter.

The Photography of Charles Sheeler MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Photography by no means played second fiddle to Charles Sheeler's work as a Precisionist painter.

It was exemplified in works by Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935) and Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965), while the urban pictures of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) are also associated with the Precisionist style.

To cite but a few: Among the works unfamiliar to me were I. Rice Pereira's «Boat Composite,» a large, vivid yet grisaille canvas from 1932 that dominates a gallery of Precisionist paintings and photographs with its bold scale and paint handling, learning from Fernand Léger while presaging the great late works of Stuart Davis and Philip Guston.

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.