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.
Example Sentences
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There were also more fundamental complaints that he was too much the precisionist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
His work in the precisionist movement, like that of other similar artists, often focuses on industrial subjects enhanced by exaggerated geometric techniques.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Something like this, anyway, is what I take to have been the precisionist program.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2018
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
Making beer is a process suited to the precisionist mentality, it must be done just so.
From Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon
