Title: CAR WASH - Acrylic Painting By Contemporary Artist Art Ballelli
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Artist: N/A
Period: Contemporary
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Origin: North America > United States
Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 2011
Item ID: 5987
By Artist Art Ballelli: acrylic on panel, 7" x 7" white mat, 15" x 16" white wooden frame under glass - An acrylic painting on panel of a derelict car wash sign on Main Street in the town of Westerly, Rhode Island, USA. Painted in vibrant primary colors and stark black and white. Earth tones of brown rust bleed around the edges and bottom of the metal and plastic sign. A web of power lines cut through a powder-blue cloudless sky. The image skates the line between photo-realism and graphic simplicity. Contemporary Precisionism may best describe the genre.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precisionism
Precisionism was the first indigenous modern-art movement in the United States and an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism. The Precisionist style, which first emerged after World War I and was at the height of its popularity during the 1920s and early 1930s, celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories in a form that has also been called "Cubist-Realism."[1] The term "Precisionism" was first coined in the mid-1920s, possibly by Museum of Modern Art director Alfred H. Barr.[2] Painters working in this style were also known as the "Immaculates," which was the more commonly used term at the time.[3] The stiffness of both art-historical labels suggests the difficulties contemporary critics had in attempting to characterize these artists.
