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"America doesn't really care-still, if one is really an artist and at the same time an American, just this not caring, even though it drives one mad, can be artistic material." - Charles Demuth
Demuth incorporated the slanted "lines of force" used by FUTURISTS in his landscapes with flatter, less aggressively fractured, and more carefully organized PRECISIONIST forms. His colors in these works-he often used pencil with WATERCOLOR washes-are relatively pale and subtle. Taking on the challenge of what he considered the national trait of passivity toward mechanization, as in the comment above from a letter he wrote to STIEGLITZ, around 1920 Demuth began to paint symbols of American industry: My Egypt (1927) is a view of an enormous grain elevator that looms as large as the great Pyramids. In I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928), his carefully organized planes are brilliantly colored with fire engine red and brassy gold. Inspired by a poem by Demuth's friend William Carlos Williams, the painting vividly ex presses the truck's clanging gong, howling siren, and rumbling wheels racing through the dark, rainy night.
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