Precisionism
Precisionism. A movement in American painting, originating
c.1915 and flourishing in the inter-war period, particularly the 1920s, in which urban and especially industrial subjects were depicted with a very smooth, and precise technique, creating clear, sharply defined, sometimes quasi-
Cubist forms. The terms ‘Cubist-Realists’, ‘Immaculates’, and ‘Sterilists’ have also been applied to Precisionist painters. They were not a formal group, but they often exhibited together.
Demuth,
O'Keeffe, and
Sheeler were among the leading figures. In Precisionist painting the light is typically brilliantly clear (although George Ault (1891–1948) was best known for his night scenes) and forms are often chosen for their geometric interest. Human presence is excluded and there is no social comment. Rather, the American industrial and technological scene is endowed with an air of epic grandeur. The degree of Cubist influence varied greatly. Some of Sheeler's paintings are in an almost photographically realistic style, whereas other works are semi-abstract. Precisionism was influential in both imagery and technique on American
Magic Realism and
Pop art.
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Ein Fest der Kunste: Paul Cassirer. Der Kunsthandler als Verleger.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...irrepressible Tilla Durieux, his second wife (by Corinth and Max Oppenheimer), portraits of Peter Hille, Julius Maier...include the two older stars of the Paul Cassirer Verlag, Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt, the two younger leading lights, Barlach and Kokoschka...
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Art dealer, publisher, Jew: Vera Grodzinski welcomes an account of the career of Paul Cassirer, the art dealer and publisher who did so much to introduce French modernism to Germany.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Lovis Corinth (Fig. 2), Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Georg Kolbe, Max Slevogt, August Gaul and many more. One woman inspired...issue offered some 30 original lithographs by Max Slevogt for the popular Lederstrumpf tales. Other examples...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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The Germans we ought to know better; Art.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 3/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...s hard to understand why Menzel, Slevogt and Waldmuller don't have the fame...greatest of modern German painting. Max Beckmann puts in an appearance here...superb, underrated painter such as Max Slevogt comes from. A single lakeside view...
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KÜNSTLER AUF DIE LEINWAND GEBANNT
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Hitzberger, Wassily Kandinsky, Hugo Lederer, Georg Kolbe, Kthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Max Oppenheimer, Emil Orlik, Max Pechstein, Max Slevogt, Josef Thorak, Lesser Ury und Heinrich Zille. Aber nur selten gelang es ihm, Entwicklungen...
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Wilhelmine Berlin.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...coverage. Jewish artists as well known as Max Liebermann and Ludwig Meidner, as...work done in experimental theater by Max Reinhardt, in film by Ernst Lubitsch...side by side at the same table, and Max Slevogt's affectionate oil portrait of Suzanne...
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Hitler's deadly art criticism
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the intervention of the Jewish president of the Prussian Academy of Art, the brilliant painter Max Liebermann, and Impressionist painter Max Slevogt. The military experience made of him a pacifist and a pessimist. He was often depressed. In...
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Death drawn to the life Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/3/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...some precursors is also included, artists who had depicted the horrors of the First World War such as Otto Dix and Max Slevogt, the latter's lithographic suite Gesichte (Visions), 1917, so disturbing in its condemnation that even the lithographic...
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Obituary: Roman Norbert Ketterer Dealer in and promoter of `Degenerate Art'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/11/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Wolfgang opened their Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett in 1946. Their first sale catalogue was of drawings and graphics by Max Slevogt, the following year. This sale had 183 lots and despite the catastrophic economic climate in Germany did extremely...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Should Congress back Bush's missile-defense plan?: Yes: Saying 'we can't' won't save lives in war
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...avoid war. It could be fatally foolish of us to assume we've suddenly learned. In reference to World War I, artist Max Slevogt painted "The Mothers," an "endless column of wailing women alongside an endless ditch of dead men." Without a...
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Max Slevogt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Max Slevogt , 1868-1932, German painter. Slevogt, together with Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth, was among the principal exponents of German...
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Slevogt, Max
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Slevogt, Max (1868–1932). German painter...connected family (his father, who died when Slevogt was 2, was a friend of Prince Luitpold...where he taught at the Academy from 1917. Slevogt's early work was sombre, but from about...
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Liebermann, Max
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Liebermann, Max (1847–1935). German painter (of portraits, figure subjects...1873 to 1878 he lived mainly in Paris, and together with Corinth and Slevogt he came to be considered one of the leading German representatives of...
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