Sentences with word «precisionist»

However, Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s.

A later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s.

Thomas Micchelli interviews painter Sharon Butler about the work in her exhibition Precisionist Casual at Pocket Utopia, New York, on view through February 17, 2013.

This exhibition's chief contribution is its documentation of parallel attitudes during the»20s and»30s in the United States between the geometricized realism of Precisionist painting, as practiced by Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Joseph Stella, Ralston Crawford, Louis Lozowick, and occasionally Georgia O'Keeffe, among others, and the new, sharply focused «straight» photography advocated in New York by Alfred Stieglitz.

[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).

In the NYTimes, Ken Johnson writes that gay precisionist Charles Demuth might have felt marginalized by the mainly heterosexual art world.

[2] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted «the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness.»

In an attempt to invent a modern photography free of painterly effect, German artists in the 1920s developed a cool, precisionist style called New Objectivity.

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.

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.

Other Precisionists include: George Ault (1891 - 1948), Ralston Crawford (1906 - 78), and Niles Spencer (1893 - 1952).

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.

Charles Sheeler Biography of American Precisionist Painter, Photographer.

Other important Precisionists in addition to Sheeling and Demuth, included Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986), Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964), Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946), Sheeling's close friend Morton Schamberg (1881 - 1918), George Ault (1891 - 1948), Niles Spencer (1893 - 1952), and Ralston Crawford (1906 - 78).

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.

And a gimlet - eyed Precisionist rendering of Central Park from 1932 by Charles Sheeler dedicated to Abby Rockefeller blew past its $ 500,000 high estimate on its way to a $ 1.33 million finish.

The premier exhibition is a rotating group survey of New Precisionist painting... see more

Foregrounding Precisionist artists» relationships with the European avant - garde and the medium of photography, this survey presents over 100 works by artists such as Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Demuth, Edmund Lewandowski, and Imogen Cunningham.

• PRECISIONISM & ART DECO (1920s) Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935) Leading Precisionist of the 1920s and 1930s; also invented poster - portraits.

In the 1930s, Driggs, after executing five major Precisionist works, abandoned the style - a decision that she may have later regretted.

His central role in the development of Precisionist aesthetics was reinforced in 1922 by a one - man - show in New York.

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

Rosenfeld notes, aptly, that Cole prefigures «the still - undervalued Precisionists Demuth and Sheeler.»

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.

Other famous Precisionist painters included Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986), as well as Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946), Morton Schamberg (1881 - 1918), George Ault (1891 - 1948), Niles Spencer (1893 - 1952), Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964) and Ralston Crawford (1906 - 78).

LG: Your work seems to share affinities with urban scene painters like Edward Hopper and perhaps precisionist painters such as Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth and Ralston Crawford.

Sharon Butler: Precisionist Casual continues at Pocket Utopia (191 Henry Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through February 17.

The paintings are... read more... «Precisionist Charles Demuth's chimney and tower paintings in Fort Worth»

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.

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 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

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

The most important Precisionist painters were Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965), Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986), George Ault (1891 - 1948), Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946), Ralston Crawford (1906 - 78), Morton Schamberg (1881 - 1918), Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964), and Niles Spencer (1893 - 1952).

Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) Precisionist painter noted for photographing the Ford Motor company car plant in Michigan.

[5] Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present.

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.

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

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):

But whereas the Precisionists celebrated the man - made as an expression of humanity's ability to create a perfect world, the Photorealists reacted against both Abstract Expressionism's rejection of realism and Pop Art's sendup of commercialism.

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.»

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

And, last but not least, Pocket Utopia included a snapshot of Two Coats editor (that's me) Sharon Butler's new paintings, and an invitation to «Precisionist Casual,» her (my!)

On the East Coast, the influence of the precisionist realism of Colville, Christopher Pratt and Mary Pratt also supported the idiosyncratic image painting of Gerard Collins, Nancy Edell and Suzanne Funnell.