precisionist

There were also more fundamental complaints that he was too much the precisionist.

Recently, while looking through the archives at the Torrington Historical Society, I came across copies of The Precisionist, a magazine the Torrington Company put out for its workers.

Why paint the inner workings of two timepieces in a magnified, heroic style combining cubist multiplicity with Precisionist exactitude?

But Kogonada’s self-conscious style begins to work against the material, with his precisionist aesthetic looking increasingly mannered, the actors’ affectless characterizations lending the proceedings a numb, distanced quality.

Precisionist pictures were almost always devoid of human beings.