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Three types of visual art

Precisionism...what is it?

Georgia O'Keeffe

Charles Demuth

Precisionism was inspired by elements from earlier modern art movements, notably the technological aesthetic of Futurism, and the geometric overlapping planes of Cubism, but it remained first and foremost an American movement. Rooted in the newly emerging machine-age, a new technological environment and a growing road and rail network, Precisionist paintings typically sought to capture this new industrial landscape in precise, simplified and sharply defined, geometrical forms. This general approach was influenced to an extent by the sharp focus and cropping techniques of 20th century American photographers.

It was an American art movement, made up of a loosely associated group of painters, which flourished during the 1920s.

Abstract Art

Non-Objective Art

The often misunderstood type of art known as abstraction aims to take subjects from reality but present them in way that is different from the way they are viewed in our reality. Abstract art includes the subcategories of Minimalism, Cubism, and Precisionism. If the artist begins with a subject from reality, the artwork is considered to be abstract.

The third type of art is often mistaken for Abstract art although it is entirely different from it. Non-Objective art takes nothing from reality. It is created purely for aesthetic reasons. The intent of Non-objective art is to use the elements and principles of art in a way that results in a visually stimulating work. It is purely that simple. If the artist is creating with no reference to reality, then the work is considered to be non-objective.

First of all, what is "visual art?"

TYPES OF

VISUAL

ART

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, film making, literature, and architecture. Art that uses the eye to appreciate.

Let's identify which category the following three paintings fall into.

There are three types of visual art.

Representational Art

Representational artwork aims to represent actual objects or subjects from reality. Subcategories under representational art include Realism, Impressionism, Idealism, and Stylization. All of these forms of representationalism represent actual subjects from reality. Although some of these forms are taking steps toward abstraction, they still fall under the category of representation.

By the way... Here is Jackson Pollock creating his famous painting.

Pricisionism and Photographers

The American artist Paul Strand had a long and productive career with the camera. Because of his tightly cropped images is was associated with the Pricisionists.

For a long time, Strand had wanted to make “portraits of people such as you see in the New York parks and places, sitting around, without their being conscious of being photographed. … I felt that one could get a quality of being through the fact that the person did not know he was being photographed … [and I wanted to capture] these people within an environment which they themselves had chosen to be in, or were in anyway.” Strand set out for Five Points, the heart of the immigrant slums on the Lower East Side, with his camera rigged with a false lens to distract attention. Approaching a potential subject, Strand turned ninety degrees away and aimed the false lens in the direction he was facing. The real lens, on an extended bellows, stuck out under his arm toward the person, whom Strand could see by looking into his lens hood sideways or sneaking a glance over his shoulder. The clumsiness of the operation made it exceedingly difficult and “nerve-racking,” but it allowed Strand to capture his subject unaware.

Charles Sheeler

Reference :

www.prezi.com