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PrecisionismSmooth, 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The ideal would have been also to devote a section to "Hyperrealism" before Hyperrealism: Peto's trompe l'oeil, Precisionism, etc. Precisionism emphasized the details of modem cities and was important in the growing Modern Art movement. Diverse sources such as Impressionism, Pointillism, Precisionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Asian art have inspired Jacquette's paintings and works on paper. |
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