The Precisionist style, which first emerged after World War I and was at the height of its popularity during the 1920s and early 1930s, celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories in a form that has also been called "Cubist-Realism." The term "Precisionism" was first coined in the mid- ...

Who invented Precisionism art?

Origins of Precisionism

Precisionism emerged after World War I and lived its peak during the 1920s and 1930s. The American architectural photographer Charles Sheeler was commissioned in 1927 to photograph the Ford Motor Company's new industrial complex, which was built along the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan.

How was Precisionism a first?

Sometimes considered to be America's first indigenous modernist art style, Precisionism, a movement principally of the 1920s and 1930s, concentrated on depicting the urban and industrial landscape, emphasizing the formal geometrical qualities of solid mass and clean lines and rendering these vistas with simplified, ...