precision
noun
the state or quality of being precise.
precisionist
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a word derived from
precision.
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a word derived from
precisionism.
precisionismnouna style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
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But Kogonada’s self-conscious style begins to work against the material, with his precisionist aesthetic looking increasingly mannered, the actors’ affectless characterizations lending the proceedings a numb, distanced quality.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
Later in his career, these paintings were hailed as key to the development of the precisionist movement.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Ms. LuPone, an idiosyncratic belter, wrestles melodies to the mat in freestyle, while Ms. Ebersole is a sparkling precisionist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2016
But the aesthetic zest of sheer modernity leaks through in the work of such artists as the Ukraine-born Louis Lozowick, a still underrated virtuosic precisionist.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015
She held a small, beautifully worked handgun loosely beside her—the twin-barrelled sporting Denton which gunwise citizens of the Hub rated as a weapon for the precisionist and expert only.
From Legacy by James H. Schmitz
