Painter and photographer, Charles Sheeler is known for his machine-age imagery.  His style was: exact, hard, flat, big, and industrial.  In the 1920, he was involved with a group of painters called the "Precisionists."  They paid great attention to detail and absolute accuracy.  He painted with a smooth, precise technique, with absolute concern for realism, interest in geometric forms, and a dependence on the photographic image.  His paintings did not contain expressive stokes of painting; his paintings were duplicates of the photographs he took.  With paint, he attempted to achieve the most realistic, most exact, most precise copy of the photo he was painting with.  His paintings were near abstract, yet they were so realistic.  He mostly painted industrial and architectural objects, so machines, buildings, and factories were a vital part of his work. His paintings did not contain anything that...