Sentences with phrase «precisionist charles»

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.

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

Ruple's scenes, composed of flat, clearly delineated shapes nestled to suggest dimension and shadow, evoke the Precisionist Charles Sheeler's renderings of factories from the 1930s,»40s, and»50s.

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).

Not exact matches

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.

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):

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

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.

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

[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).

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Among Charles Demuth's best known 20th century paintings in the Precisionist idiom include: My Egypt (1927, Whitney Museum of American Art), and Buildings Abstraction, Lancaster (1931, Detroit Institute of Arts).

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.

• Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973) Pictorialist • Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) Precisionist • Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) Still life photographer • Man Ray (1890 - 1976) Dada, fashion photographer • Paul Strand (1890 - 1976) Straight photography • Ansel Adams (1902 - 84) Wilderness landscapes • Robert Capa (1913 - 54) War photojournalist • Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) Fashion photography • Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004) Fashion, portraits, documentary photos