Word: geometricism
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Calabash and Flowers. In one sense, ecological art is about what art has always been about: leaving a mark on the world. But left as it frequently is to the whims of nature and viewed rarely by anyone other than the artist, it acknowledges what art has rarely acknowledged before...
Out of Folklore. Vasarely's debt to'Mondrian, Malevich and Seurat is apparent and acknowledged. But what Vasarely did was to build on the somewhat dry ideas of the Bauhaus and suffuse them with new life-the life of shifting perspectives, vibrant color harmonies and weighted geometric shapes...
One of the most remarkable works of that period, Fille-Fleur, is at once colored with nostalgic memories of the bright costumes of his homeland and, in its ellipses and squares, prophetic of the direction that Vasarely would take. It was not until after the war that the artist, spurred...
See and Do. Our Man-Made Environment bristles with challenge. Many of its pages are lightweight cardboard punch-outs, which can be folded to make beams, roofs, and whole buildings. One of the first lessons asks students to punch out six geometric shapes and arrange them in a pleasing design...
The geometric imagery of Frank Stella seems unrelated to anything beyond the realm of painting or problems of color and form. Abstract art does not directly comment on the world that faces it. But as you stand in the midst of the Frank Stella exhibition you can imagine that this...