Word: geometricism
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Vitamin Vision. Mondrian and other constructivists were forerunners of calculated geometry. But Mondrian, explains Vasarely, "was still abstracting natural forms, the sea or a tree. My plastic abstractions are composed of pure form and pure colors with no relation to natural structures at all. By 1955 I had developed a...
This spring Marimekko has come of age. Veering away from the pseudo ivy league button-down, shirtwaist styles, and the blatant tents for which it had become known, its lines are tamer. However, the effect is definitely on the wild side. A few styles retain excess fullness, but most are...
The five paintings by Paul Klee effectively span his career. "Runner at the Goal" (1921) and "Red Baloon" (1922) are the whimsical and delightful products of the early Klee, who was experimenting with color and geometric form. "The Revolution of the Viaduct" (1937)--one of the highpoints of the show...
FRANK STELLA-Castelli, 4 East 77th. Compared with his black and white pinstripes, Stella's new deep purple progressions down the geometric mean are a burst into song. He names these paintings for friends, although only one of them is a square. For example his dealer, Leo Castelli, is...
Dean Sert reveals plans for the tenth House: a sixteen-story windowless inverted pyramid "gaily painted with colors reflecting the spirit of our times." Refuting charges of structural instability, Sert points out that "even the ancients knew the triangle was the most stable geometric form, and my pyramid will contain...