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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of early 20th-century painting in which depicted scenes or objects are reduced or simplified to elemental structural forms and rendered by a combination of abstractionism and realism.
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Examples
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Greg, I know precisionism is sometimes unattractive, but it really grates to see you repeatedly use the rich term "myth" as a mere euphemism for "lie."
Vulnerable GOP Senator Recites Bogus China-Cuba Oil Myth 2009
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The fascinating thing for me was to watch the evolution of his painting from precisionism to cubism and to see how his photography influenced his paintings.
At Last, Good-bye vuboq 2006
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They fit no ready niche, and, indeed, Georgia joked that the critics had tried to place her in every movement that came along—expressionism, precisionism, regionalism, surrealism, and all the rest—until pop art came along, and then they gave up.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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That precisionism reached its apogee with Irving Penn’s celebrated series of astringent, almost clinical photographs of the fall 1950 Paris collections.
“Show the Dress” 2007
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That precisionism reached its apogee with Irving Penn’s celebrated series of astringent, almost clinical photographs of the fall 1950 Paris collections.
“Show the Dress” 2007
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