Word: geometricism
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Hence, the Greek sculptors sought to combine that harmonic proportion of general forms which had been discovered by the neolithic artists with the vital image of man. They began by applying basic geometric principles to the frontal representation of the human figure.
In the Fifth Century B.C. the Attic sculptors finally achieved this synthesis of the vital image of man with the geometric abstract of beauty which they had been seeking. It was this achievement of a true idealism in art which gave the world Humanism, and which was the unique achievement...
The subject matter was strictly from the Red handbook: miners, child laborers, peasants, and decadent rich folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy...
Completely abstract geometrical patterns, which characterized neolithic art, represent the evolution of artistic sensibility to the abstract, Read said. He considers geometric art "an extension of artistic sensibility, not a limitation."
Though they will eventually to fused, beauty and vitality developed separately because of "cosmic anxiety" prevalent in the neolithic period, Read said. "A desire for a secret language with symbolic meaning led to geometric patterns."