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Church Street El by Charles Sheeler, 1920
Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
Apparently this view comes from a shot in an early experimental film Sheeler made with the photographer Paul Strand, about lower Manhattan — he was already thinking in stacked, simplified shapes before he ever touched a brush to it.
Erisava: This looks more like an architect's diagram than a painting.
Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange by Charles Demuth, 1929
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Apparently Demuth spent a lot of his later years on watercolors like this one — fruit and vegetables, painted with the same precision people usually associate with his industrial scenes.
Erisava: This much care went into painting a cabbage. Why?