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Precisionism

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Precisionism

Smooth, precise technique used primarily in the 1920s by several U.S. painters in representational canvases depicting sharply defined forms, such as urban skylines; the industrial landscape of factories and smokestacks, buildings, and machinery; and country landscapes with grain elevators and barns or empty desert and sky. The scenes are always devoid of people or signs of human activity. Precisionism is a “cool” art, which keeps the viewer at a distance. It had its origins in Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism; in turn it influenced Pop art. Though it was not a school or movement with a formal program, the Precisionist artists, including Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe, often exhibited together.



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Indeed, her use of geometric forms and interlocking planes are reminiscent of synthetic Cubism, which lent itself nicely to her precisionism and design.
Demuth’s paintings are exemplars of Precisionism (or, as it has also been dubbed, “Cubist-Realism,” a term that identifies the school’s primary influence).
Indeed, might Hopper here emerge as the crypto-modernist he was, his "realism" cloaking a canny grasp of Romanticism, Precisionism, and even Surrealism?
 
 
 
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