Word: geometricism
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Dali originally entitled the work Corpus hipercubus (Hypercubic Body), explains that his painting is based on "the harmonious division of a specific golden rectangle" and on the studies of the cube by the 16th century Spanish Architect Juan de Herrera. Actually, the painting has all the impact of a good...
The find may well boost interest in the very great Renaissance painter who had all but dropped from sight 400 years after his death. Famed in his day as one of Italy's greatest masters of mathematical perspective, Piero trademarked his work with his magnificent handling of translucent atmosphere...
Curiously, Escher has had little success in his native Holland. He lives quietly in Baarn, works up about half a dozen prints a year. An exhibition of his art in the Baarn high school (TIME, April 2, 1951) caught the attention of a few connoisseurs of the incomprehensible and led...
Today, at 38, Koerner has abandoned symbolism for a fanatically objective approach to everyday subjects. His new paintings, on view at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries this week, struck at least one critic as coming "perilously close to academicism." But Paul Cézanne, who was no academician, would have...
Animals on the Mantel. The apartment where Artist Statsinger conducts her own explorations, near Chicago's crime-blighted Midway, is painted dead white. The low, simple furniture is her own handiwork, and her clothes closet is crammed with carpentry tools. Ranged along the hearth and mantel are geometric little...