1. Note Set 8

2. Charles Demuth was born in 1883.

3. He was a Precisionist.

4. Precisionism emerged after WWI. It was the most popular during the 1920s and the early 1930s

5. Precisionism celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories.

6. The Precisionists separated themselves from European influences. They wanted to show distinctly American subjects.

7. Demuth was also influenced by Cubism.

8. Cubism breaks things down to its simplest forms.

9. One of Demuth's most recognized paintings is titled I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold.

10. The Great Figure Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red fire truck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city William Carlos WilliamsWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems Four Seas Company, Boston, 1921 Charles DemuthCharles Demuth (1883-1935) The Figure 5 in Gold (1928) Alfred Stieglitz Collection

11. Saturation is how pure the hue is.