Precisionist School Painters

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About Precisionist School Painters

Precisionist School.
They began experimenting with a highly controlled approach to technique and form. They consistently reduced their compositions to simple shapes and underlying geometrical structures, with clear outlines, minimal detail, and smooth handling of surfaces.

Robert Herrmann (1922-1996.) is a great example.

So is Judith Kramer, an artist from Tuscon,Arizona-
who's Geometrics, Form, and Spatial Relationships in her
Architectural Landscape paintings are an integral part of the creative process.

However, it wasn’t until an Architect/ Art Historian, upon viewing her new Paintings, introduced her to the American Painter, Charles Sheeler and his self- proclaimed Precisionist style of painting, that she discovered a name for her style of work, work that had already existed; endlessly combining architecture and geometrics.

Her Precisionist Architectural Landscape paintings involve architectural landscape interpretations with an emphasis on geometric form and further explorations of geometric design.

Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth are the artists most closely associated with Precisionism, while the urban works of Georgia O’Keefe are also typical of this style.
Architecture was their favorite subject.
People and nature were usually absent In their paintings.
The visual language that Precisionists developed combined realism and geometric schematization. These geometrical landscape painters reduced volumes to colored planes. Their canvases combined effects of flatness with effects of depth and perspective.

"Think" a "cousin" of Cubism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precisionism