Precisionism was the first indigenous modern art movement in the United States from the 1920s to early 1930s that focused on themes of industrialization and the modernization of the American landscape through a precise, geometric style exemplified by artists like Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Stuart Davis, Francis Criss, and Morton Schamberg such as in Sheeler's 1922 painting "Skyscraper".

1. PRECISIONISM

2. PRECISIONISM
• First indigenous modern-art
movement in the United States.

3. PRECISIONISM
• The height of its popularity ranges
from 1920s – Early 1930s.

4. PRECISIONISM
• First used in the 1920s, by the
Museum of Modern Art director
Alfred H. Barr

5. THEMES OF PRECISIONISM
• Mostly about industrialization
• Modernism of American Landscape

6. FAMOUS ARTISTS/PAINTERS DURING
PRECISIONISM:
• Charles Sheeler
• Charles Demuth
• Stuart Davis
• Francis Criss
• Morton Schamberg

7. PRECISIONISM
• Skyscraper,
Charles
Sheeler (1922)