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lionofchaeronea · 7 months

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The Ox, Joseph Stella, 1929

#art #art history #Joseph Stella #landscape #landscape painting #animals in art #ox #oxen #Futurism #Precisionism #American art #Italian-American art #20th century art #modern art

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oncanvas · 1 year

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Dream of Fair Women, Charles Goeller, by 1941

Oil on canvas 42 x 34 in. (106.7 x 86.4 cm)

#art #painting #charles goeller #modern art #realism #still life #precisionism #20th century #1940s #oil #american #100 notes #250 notes #500 notes #750 notes #1000 notes

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newyorkthegoldenage · 6 days

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George Copeland Ault, Morning in Brooklyn, 1929. Oil on canvas.

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#vintage New York #1920s #Morning in Brooklyn #George Copeland Ault #painting #realism #vintage Brooklyn #precisionism

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classicalcanvas · 8 months

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Title: Tree of My Life

Artist: Joseph Stella

Date: 1877 - 1946

Style: Precisionism

Genre: Landscape

#art history #art #painting #artwork #history #museums #culture #vintage #curators #classicalcanvas #precisionism #landscape #joseph stella

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disease · 1 year

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE / “BLACK IRIS: VI” / 1936 [oil on canvas | 36 x 24″]

#georgia o'keeffe #precisionism #modernism #flowers #modern art #painting #30s #american #art #u

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kafkasapartment · 25 days

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The Bridge over the Mugnone, 1932. Ottone Rosai. Oil on canvas

#art #painting #peinture #pittura #pintura #malerei #1930s #cubism #geometric #precisionism

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the-cricket-chirps · 6 months

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Black Place, Grey and Pink

1949

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nancydrewwouldnever · 2 months

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Charles Sheeler, Classic Landscape, 1931, oil/canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

Depicting the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge factory near Detroit

#charles sheeler #art #landscape #painting #precisionism #20th century

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collectionstilllife · 5 months

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Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965) • Chrysanthemums • 1912 • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

#still life #art #painting #art of the still life blog #fine art #flower still life #art history #american artist #charles sheeler #whitney museum #artwork #museum aesthetic #precisionism #art lover #art blogger

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misscromwellsmonocle · 7 months

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Autumn Leaves, Lake George (1924) by Georgia O'Keeffe

#Autumn Leaves Lake George #Georgia O'Keeffe #modernism #American modernism #Precisionism #Miss Cromwell #autumn #leaves

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jareckiworld · 1 year

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Peter Blume (1906-1992) — The Parade [oil on canvas, 1930]

#Peter Blume #american art #jewish art #precisionism

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oncanvas · 4 months

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New England Irrelevancies, Charles Sheeler, 1953

Gouache and graphite on paper 9 ½ x 7 ½ in. (24.1 x 19.1 cm)

#art #painting #charles sheeler #precisionism #realism #20th century #1950s #american #gouache #graphite

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newyorkthegoldenage · 6 months

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George Copeland Ault, Ninth Avenue, 1924. Oil on canvas.

Living in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, George Ault depicted the buildings of New York City with a distinct style of simplified forms, solid colors and extreme angles. Painted in 1924, Ninth Avenue is a dynamic example of Ault's unique form of Precisionism, incorporating elements of Surrealism to create a sense of disquiet amidst the vibrant streets of the city.

In the present work, Ault takes a perspective from under the Ninth Avenue El, which was the first elevated railway in New York and operated between 1868 and 1940. Highlighting the sleek lines and repetitive nature of the architecture around this modern transportation hub, Ault minimizes the cityscape to its most basic geometric forms and executes the composition in flat planes of primary colors. In the foreground, an elegant woman walks her adorable dog, and brilliantly colored cars are parked at regular intervals along either side. The vertical supports of the rail platform emphasize the intense one-point perspective of the scene; as a result, the road and trolley tracks seem to very rapidly recede into the distance as the block-like buildings squeeze closer and closer from both directions. The underlying tension within this outwardly bright, modern cityscape is further underscored by the vibrant signage, which tantalizes the viewer's curiosity but remains largely illegible behind various obstructions.

Ault once referred to New York as "the Inferno without the fire," and the nuances of the present work illustrate that duality that captivated and inspired his many views of the city.

—quoted in George Ault, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, p. 7

As Roberta Smith has written of the artist, "Ault's firm, unflamboyant way with a brush, his feeling for a building's austere, carefully dovetailed planes and, above all, his love of light as painting's form-giving, mood-setting force, sustained him at nearly every turn, in any direction he chose to move ... He brought to his various scenes an idiosyncratic poetry and a sadness that was neither hidden nor indulged, but kept at an arm's length with a sense of dignity that, strangely enough, could almost be celebratory. In Ault's paintings, one feels that he loved life, even if life did not particularly love him."

—George "Ault's Sad, Everyday Beauty in Stillness," The New York Times, April 29, 1988

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#vintage New York #1920s #George Ault #Ninth Avenue #precisionism #NY art #surrealism #painting #oil painting #NYC art #9th Ave.

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classicalcanvas · 8 months

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