Church Street El New York
by Charles Sheeler
Title
Church Street El New York
Artist
Charles Sheeler
Medium
Photograph - Oil On Canvas
Description
Church Street El New York by CHARLES SHEELER
Capturing the soaring heights of New York City, this painting is a dramatic bird's eye view of Broadway and Wall Street, showing a conglomeration of buildings at left and center, and the Church Street elevated train at right. Sheeler based his composition on an image from the short movie Manhattan (1920), which he made with the photographer Paul Strand. One of the first avant-garde American films, Manhattan celebrates the dynamic metropolis through a series of carefully composed shots of Lower Manhattan.
As typical with Sheeler's work, the artist simplified forms and eliminated textures in Church Street El to concentrate on rhythmic interplays of shapes and color, as well as patterns of light and shadow.
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