Word: geometricism
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The tetrahedron frequently appears in nature: the spatial orientation of a carbon atom's valence electrons, for example, is tetrahedral. Fuller also noted that all three-dimensional geometric figures reduce to combinations of tetrahedra. The tetrahedron, in fact, "is the minimum system for subdividing the universe."
Mescaline is a substance that causes hallucinations. These are predominently in the form of brilliantly colored, fantastic visions seen when the eyes are closed and ranging from simple geometric patterns to other-worldly landscapes in vivid hues and three dimensions. People who have had these visions emphasize the impossibility of...
To most of the artists now exhibited at the Busch, unity of the arts in an industrial era demanded the use of industrial forms. Shapes are generally geometric, textures are flat, and colors slightly metallic. Such is Lyonel Feininger's "Architecture II, or The Man from Potin," a bright street...
The paintings of Oscar Schlemmer, Herbert Bayer, Paul Klee, and others also reflect this mechanical trend, but it reaches perhaps its greatest extreme in the works of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy who completely eliminates the objective elements from his painting, retaining only geometric abstractions. Unlike most current abstract-expressionists, Moholy-Nagy...
While his paintings had been all angles -"A cubistic mother feeding a geometric baby out of a trigonometric bottle," one critic sneered-his sculptures have always been round and soft as flesh. Occasionally he turns out a Biblical head that is as fierce and formidable as the Old Testament itself...