precisionist

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There were also more fundamental complaints that he was too much the precisionist.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

Later in his career, these paintings were hailed as key to the development of the precisionist movement.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

The best precisionist artist — although he didn’t particularly identify with the movement — may well have been Gerald Murphy.

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

A tale is told of a Kansas minister, a great precisionist in the use of words, whose exactness sometimes destroyed the force of what he was saying.

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