{"title":"Charles Sheeler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Sheeler was a leading exponent of the innovative modernist style that arose after World War I in the United States and came to be known as Precisionism. Artists associated with the movement fused a planar geometry developed from European Cubism with an interest in uniquely American subjects, often celebrating industry and a Machine Age aesthetic. Sheeler worked across artistic mediums and developed a versatile, complex practice in which his vision was expressed with equal artistic command and intellectual rigor, masterfully devising compositions of modern, geometric form from America’s burgeoning urban and industrial landscapes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn 1927, Sheeler was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s massive new automobile manufacturing facility in Dearborn, Michigan, on the Rouge River. Sheeler was fascinated by the mechanized totality of the environment, and his photographic images of the facility’s machines and architecture became justly celebrated. This fascination persisted beyond the photographic assignment, and in subsequent years he embarked on a series of paintings and drawings based on the complex. In the painting\u003cem\u003e River Rogue Plant\u003c\/em\u003e Sheeler focuses on the section of the facility that processed coal into fuel; in the foreground are a boat slip and the bows of two ships that carried the coal. Sheeler captures the scene—its whitewashed buildings depopulated and waters motionless—with a lucidity and sereneness that confounds our expectations of heavy industry. “It may be true,” he remarked, “that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/en-us\/collections\/charles-sheeler.oembed","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}