#precisionism

Art the community tagged “precisionism” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 9

Church Street El by Charles Sheeler, 1920

Church Street El
Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

#precisionism #cityscape #skyscrapers #geometric #american
Erisava Staff Aug 5

Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange by Charles Demuth, 1929

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?

#watercolor #still-life #precisionism #vegetables #american