From
early Precisionist works to his last figurative series, Haines continued to subdivide his compositions in intriguing ways.
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):
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).
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.
In one gallery alone you can jump from Hopper to O'Keeffe to the quasi-abstract
precisionists,
early Jackson Pollock, political Philip Guston and the thick impasto of William H Johnson's post-cubist couple beneath a chunky Harlem moon.
Butler finds herself pulled between the worldly confines of the
Precisionists of the
early twentieth century and the fey liberation of today's Casualist abstraction.
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.
The Ashmolean Museum's latest exhibition examines this
early 20th century American pride and optimism; but also touches on something potentially frightening about the
Precisionist painters» expression of that «Modernist soul».
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.
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.
From experiments in abstraction to
precisionist paintings, this major exhibition explores the cool in
early 20th - century American Art.
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.