Precisionism
Precisionism
was a style that developed beginning in the early 1920s as a
response to the increasingly urban and industrial landscape in
America.
The term was first used by painter Charles Sheeler and refers to the
sharp, precise lines and blocks of color that compose his works.
Precisionists took manmade forms as their subject matter -
skyscrapers, factories, grain elevators, bridges, and machinery -
and represented these structures in high-contrast paintings that
employed large, flat areas of color and straight lines.
The movement was closely influenced by photography, and in fact
Sheeler often painted from photographs of his subjects.
Precisionism was part of a general machine aesthetic taking root in
America in the 1920s.
Representative
painters:
Crawford, Demuth,
Lozowick, Sheeler, N.Spencer