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单词 precisionist
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precisionistn.adj.

Brit. /prᵻˈsɪʒn̩ɪst/, /prᵻˈsɪʒnɪst/, U.S. /priˈsɪʒ(ə)nəst/, /prəˈsɪʒ(ə)nəst/
Forms: 1800s precisianist (irregular), 1800s– precisionist.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: precision n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < precision n. + -ist suffix.In form precisianist probably influenced by precisian n. With sense A. 2 compare later precisionism n.
A. n.
1. A person who makes a profession or practice of precision in expression, work, etc.; a purist.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun] > truthful person > one who professes accuracy
descriptionist1819
precisionist1827
precisioner1892
1827 Examiner 822/1 Enjoyment which..precisianists, purists, and conventiclers would totally extinguish.
1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iii. iii. 281 Must He be a precisionist in order to be passed as just?
1873 Spectator 15 Feb. 203/2 Both are precisianists in utterance, and skilled in the manipulation of the finest shades of language.
1923 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 103 171 His appeal to the kinetic theory of matter would by a precisionist be described as a departure from our elected task of dealing with matter in bulk.
1978 Verbatim Winter 6/2 And I am certain that that great precisionist intended a true rhyme.
1988 E. Young-Bruehl Anna Freud i. 41 Owen was, from an early age, a precisionist, critical of Martin's cavalier attitude toward spelling.
2005 Electr. Wholesaling (Nexis) 1 May 19 Herbert was a precisionist who always demanded the best of herself and her staff.
2. Art. Usually in form Precisionist. Any of a group of U.S. painters of the early 20th cent. who employed a precise technique derived from Cubism, characterized by linearity, sharply defined structural forms, hard-edged lighting, and representational images without human subjects.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > other movements > artists
luminarist1888
luminist1901
Suprematist1919
precisionist1927
muralist1937
neoprimitive1938
Rayonist1947
nuclearist1952
neo-expressionist1955
structurist1958
neo-Dadaist1960
body artist1971
post-minimalist1971
1927 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. ii. 11/5 ‘American Window’ proves that a composition can be precise without being toylike—something neither of our two foremost precisionists, Preston Dickinson and Niles Spencer, can quite prove in their own work.
1960 Art in Amer. iii. 33/1 Its [sc. Cubism's] effects still prevade the most recent work of the Precisionists.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 185/2 The Precisionists did not issue manifestos, and they were not a school or movement with a formal program.
1986 V. Goldberg Margaret Bourke-White vii. 81 In the twenties, a loosely-knit group of American painters known as the Precisionists responded..to..machine forms.
2001 Washington Post 4 Aug. c1 It is this surreal quality that sets Criss's work apart from the other precisionists.
B. adj.
Also Precisionist. Employing or exhibiting precision as an artistic technique; of, belonging to, or resembling the work of the Precisionists.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others
all'antica1605
neo-Gothic1878
Barbizon1890
chinoiserie1909
neoprimitive1922
omega1922
Suprematist1922
beaux arts1924
ashcan1934
vitalistic1937
Euston Road1941
precisionist1943
abstract impressionist1950
abstract-concrete1955
neo-expressionist1957
metaphysical1958
structurist1958
auto-destructive1959
Rayonist1968
post-minimal1971
assemblagist1977
Neo-Geo1987
1943 N.Y. Times 14 Feb. ii. 7/1 Not till decades afterward did the ‘precisionist’ technique come again into favor, through the methods of Demuth, Preston Dickinson, Georgia O'Keeffe and Grant Wood.
1960 Art in Amer. iii. 32/1 The Precisionist painting process is one of continual distillation and editing.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 747/2 Even American or German architecture looks a bit thrown together when compared with the precisionist craftsmanship of his high-gloss aluminium detailing.
2002 Art in Amer. Nov. 161 In its precisionist rendering and wryly humorous choice of motif..Innerst has found a most apt signifier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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