precisionism

PRECISIONISM

• First indigenous modern-art movement in the United States.

PRECISIONISM

• The height of its popularity ranges from 1920s – Early 1930s.

PRECISIONISM

• First used in the 1920s, by the Museum of Modern Art director Alfred H. Barr

THEMES OF PRECISIONISM

• Mostly about industrialization• Modernism of American

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FAMOUS ARTISTS/PAINTERS DURING PRECISIONISM:

• Charles Sheeler• Charles Demuth• Stuart Davis• Francis Criss• Morton Schamberg

PRECISIONISM

• Skyscraper, Charles Sheeler (1922)

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