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Charles Sheeler’s Industrial landscapes
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C HARLES S HEELER 1813-1965 Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Attended Pennsylvania Museum School of Art & Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Painter & commercial photographer focusing mainly on architectural subjects. Recognized as one of the founders of American modernism & one of the master photographers of the 20 th century.
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I NDUSTRIAL L ANDSCAPES Represents a change in the subject of landscape art from nature to man-made architecture. Buildings and factories instead of mountains and forests; smoke instead of clouds. Painted using a technique that complemented his photography and emphasized linear precision. Amoskeag Canal, 1948
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F ord M otor C o. In 1927, Sheeler hired to paint and photograph the factories at Ford Motor Company’s automobile plant in River Rouge, Michigan. 32 photographs depicting its acres of machinery and smokestacks rather than the human process of labor. Would go on to examine the plant with works in a number of mediums.
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American Landscapes, 1930 Classic Landscape, 1931
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S heeler’s L egacy Left behind a body of work that explored the balance between abstraction and representation, photography and painting, and an increasingly industrialized present and a more simple past. Stacks in Celebration, 1954
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W orks C ited www.wikipedia.com www.wikipedia.com www.metmuseum.org www.metmuseum.org www.daytonartinstitute.org www.daytonartinstitute.org www.moma.org www.moma.org www.anb.org www.anb.org www.galleryhip.com www.galleryhip.com www.allposters.com www.allposters.com
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