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pre·ci·sion·ist

(prĭ-sĭzh′ə-nĭst)
n.
1. One who values precision; a purist.
2. often Precisionist A painter whose work is marked by precisionism.
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Synopsis: Early in his career, Ralston Crawford (1906--1978) earned acclaimed for his Precisionist paintings of architectural subjects associated with a forward-looking, industrialized America, most famously his Overseas Highway of 1939.
Some of the images were painterly, others linear--thus the contradiction between pieces such as Bray-Fale, with its rich, smeary browns and blacks, and Ignon, with its precisionist facture (both works 2006).
Sharing images of the tattoo on Instagram Katy wrote, "The end of tour tattoo tradition continues with #4 by the gentle precisionist @_dr_woo_ The planet in the middle is Saturn as this journey has taught me many lessons with a few tears along the way BUT I am happy to report a sense of real resilience as we wrap.
There is little sense of nature, but the precisionist surface spirals evoke a bleached diagram of cosmic animation.
Chapter three outlines the creative encounter between William Carlos Williams's poetry and Precisionist pictorial art, in such a way that Charles Demuth's deconstructive ways in the watercolour Cyclamen (1917-1918) are echoed in the eponymous poem by Williams.
[Examines Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's 1921 silent film Manhatta and its intertitles, which are all borrowed from Whitman's poems, and shows how the filmmakers "aspire to represent the vision of Mannahatta captured through Whitman's camera eye," creating a work that "can be regarded as the Precisionist collaboration of Whitman, Sheeler, and Strand"; in Korean.]
This precisionist criticism is, however, typical, and the eighteenth-century archives are full of similar scolding.
Workers likewise rarely appeared in images of industry by Precisionist painters like Sheeler, Dumuth, and Lozowick, as noted by Fraser in "Hands off the Machine" and Sharon Corwin in "Picturing Efficiency: Precisionism, Scientific Management, and the Effacement of Labor," Representations, 84 (November 2003), 139-165.
They'll be given a Bulova Precisionist watch worth up to PS400 as part of a new partnership between HM Samuel and the club.
Bulova Gents Precisionist Watch PS269 @ Laings of Glasgow
The precisionist were carrying banners and placards in support of their demands and beating their breasts and raising slogans against the price hike, unemployment, feudalism, capitalism and privatization.

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