As some American artists began to eliminate people and remove
extraneous details from their compositions, they often employed
neat, orderly brushwork or close-up, unemotional photography.
Artists as diverse as Patrick Henry Bruce, John Covert, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Paul Strand and Arthur Dove navigated European and
American avant-garde circles, picking and choosing new ideas and
methods. Inspiration ranged from cubism and machine parts to new
technologies, and they found ways to bring order to the modern
world through extreme simplification. For them, abstraction
involved absence and presence - the evacuation of human beings but
also the desire to depict something that would not otherwise be
visible or to render visible unseen natural processes like the
passage of time, sound waves, or weather patterns. Their artworks
provide a new context for the precisionist works in the subsequent
sections and point to modern ideas about what art could be. How
does a crisp painting technique relate to an aesthetic of absence?
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