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precisionism

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pre·ci·sion·ism also Pre·ci·sion·ism  (pr-szh-nzm)
n.
A style of early 20th-century painting in which depicted scenes or objects are reduced or simplified to elemental structural forms and rendered by a combination of abstractionism and realism.
precisionism
an insistence upon perfection in language, morals, or ritual. — precisionist, n. — precisionistic, adj.
See also: Attitudes
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Indeed, her use of geometric forms and interlocking planes are reminiscent of synthetic Cubism, which lent itself nicely to her precisionism and design.
LISTENING WOMAN; THE ART OF HELEN HARDIN by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Demuth’s paintings are exemplars of Precisionism (or, as it has also been dubbed, “Cubist-Realism,” a term that identifies the school’s primary influence).
Pennsylvania Cubist by Mario Naves / The New York Observer
Indeed, might Hopper here emerge as the crypto-modernist he was, his "realism" cloaking a canny grasp of Romanticism, Precisionism, and even Surrealism?
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