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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 Schmitz, James H.