precisionism

Etymology

From precision + -ism.

precisionism means A modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I, reducing subjects to their essential geometric shapes and eliminating detail. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.

Why this word is great

PRECISIONISM — [Noun] A modernist art movement in early 20th-century America characterized by sharply defined, geometric depictions of industrial and urban subjects. From precision (meaning "exactness, accuracy") + -ism (a suffix denoting a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy). Unlike Cubism, which fractures form into competing facets of experience, or Photorealism, which labors to replicate the incidental detail of a photograph, Precisionism is an act of idealized distillation. It is the stark, shadowless flank of a grain elevator reduced to a monumental plane; the hypnotic, parallel lines of railroad tracks converging into an abstracted distance; and the serene, inhuman curve of a concrete dam set against an empty sky—a vision of the machine age rendered with a clarity so severe it feels like a new and austere scripture.

noun

A modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I, reducing subjects to their essential geometric shapes and eliminating detail.