Through his research and his three - dimensional works — with seemingly limitless permutations
of simple geometric forms — Rashid explores the phenomenological relationship between work, viewer, and architecture.
To draw the viewer into a direct relationship with the artwork they created their own pictorial language, often based on the use
of simple geometric forms and employed industrial materials.
According to the gallery - «Ellis fossilizes the past, encasing the vintage record albums in a glossy layer of resin, exploiting Minimalism's application
of simple geometric forms, seriality, Gestalt theory, and sleek exterior, while simultaneously adding history and memory by implementing found objects.»
Reduced color palettes and the repetition
of simple geometric forms, as well as industrial materials that have a symbiotic relationship to architecture, create new mash - ups that mix formal rigor with sensuality, subjectivity, personal narrative, and contemporary sexual politics.
Not exact matches
Bem's psi research reminds me
of the
geometric paintings
of Piet Mondrian —
simple - looking canvases whose elegantly balanced compositions actually reflect decades
of investigation into color and
form.
Minimalism is an extreme
form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed
of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle
The structure itself is representative
of the elements innately associated with Modern architecture -
simple, clean lines, basic
geometric forms, and rectangular shapes.
«On the
simple level
of appearances, there is a remarkable coincidence: the articulation
of basic
geometric forms through rotation, subdivision and projection is regularly encountered in both bodies
of work, as is a formal exploration
of space, interval and movement.
His art is often comprised
of simple grid - like
geometric forms and open modular structures designed in infinite combinations.
In 1966 Alloway coined the term Systemic Art to «describe a type
of abstract art characterized by the use
of very
simple standardized
forms, usually
geometric in character, either in a single concentrated image or repeated in a system arranged according to a clearly visible principle
of organization».
By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more
geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements
of his paintings through use
of simple forms and flat blocks
of nebulous and subtle colour.
Focusing on
simple,
geometric forms of abstraction, Zobernig uses everyday materials such as cardboard, styrofoam, pressboard, linen and fluorescent lights.
While the tubes were sometimes arranged in
geometric shapes such as grids or
simple lines, the focus
of the art was typically on the light emitted rather than the
form of the tubes themselves.
Noland became celebrated in the 1950s for his series
of concentric circles in a dazzling array
of colours; not, like the paintings
of Jasper Johns, targets, but circles as a
simple geometric form that could demonstrate an infinite number
of colour combinations.
She exploits the similarity between the liquid
form of both subject and medium - water, sky, light - filled architectural spaces - which she anchors with strong but
simple geometric elements.
They called for
simple, three - dimensional,
geometric forms that were stripped
of any illusionism, iconography, or personal expression and made using industrial processes and materials like plywood, aluminum, and plastic.
Working in a variety
of media, including photography, works on paper and glass works, Albers explores
form and tonal contrasts using
simple,
geometric designs and abstractions.
Once there, he radicalized sculpture with nontraditional materials, brilliant color and, most
of all,
simple geometric forms that used more space than materials.
Much
of the art
of earlier cultures — signs and marks on pottery, textiles, and inscriptions and paintings on rock — used
simple,
geometric and linear
forms which might have had a symbolic or decorative purpose.
Working with
simple geometric forms, Albers sought to produce the effects
of chromatic interaction, in which the visual perception
of a color is affected by those adjacent to it.
Before affixing the translucent coloured Perspex to Propaganda (1965) and Plastica (Paesaggio con Brancusi)(1965), he used the
simple geometric shapes as stencils to create repeating
forms, which give a sense
of dynamism.
According to Chilvers (2004) «earlier in 1966 the British art critic Lawrence Alloway had coined the term «Systemic art», to describe a type
of abstract art characterized by the use
of very
simple standardized
forms, usually
geometric in character, either in a single concentrated image or repeated in a system arranged according to a clearly visible principle
of organization.
Minimal sculpture is composed
of extremely
simple, monumental
geometric forms made
of fibreglass, plastic, sheet metal, or aluminum, either left raw or solidly painted with bright industrial colours.
The works selected for Unlimited Perception include a retrospective overview
of two
of the main series that Biasi has worked with for decades — the Torsioni,
simple geometric forms enlivened by a rhythmic procession
of PVC strips, and the Rilievi Ottico - Dinamici, colorful explosions that seem to vibrate via the grids
of PVC that hover above painted designs.
His
geometric forms are austere and
simple; the horizontals
of single colour would cover the entire surface
of the painting but for the insistent and recurrent introduction
of a white square.
His work is characterized by
simple and smooth
geometric shapes that lend themselves to a physical
form of appreciation.
[6] During one
of his solo Abstract expressionist exhibitions in 1959, Held's large - scale paintings
of colourful,
simple abstract
geometric forms gained increasing recognition in America and Europe.
The uncomplicated backdrop and
simpler geometric forms represent for him his own cultural background
of Tokyo and the East, and are juxtaposed with the vibrant color and materials symbolizing the energy and openness
of his adopted New York City and the West.
Like surveyor's marking posts mapping out the perceptual landscape
of objective reality, Judd's art investigates the material nature
of the world we live in using only the
simplest geometric forms and materials as its tools.
After years
of working on sculptures using a similar set
of geometric shapes, this new body
of paintings on linen takes those same
simple bold shapes into painted
forms.
Moneyless produced dynamic
geometric forms through repetition
of simple circles aiming to say more with less.
Primarily composed
of directed, framed and focused light projections, Verjux's sculptural exploration
of light serve not simply as
simple forms and
geometric shapes, but as indexes and symbols
of an event.
Attracted to the clean shapes and industrial materials
of sculptures by Donald Judd, and the
simple geometric structure
of paintings by artists such as Brice Marden, Amado began looking for different industrial materials that he could manipulate to
form geometric paintings and sculptures.
Dominated by
simple geometric forms and their interrelationships, the movement was often held up for derision in the popular press and the non-art world as the ultimate in «the Emperor's New Clothes» syndrome — when Andre's Equivalent VIII (1966), a rectangular arrangement
of 120 firebricks on the floor, was bought and exhibited by the Tate Gallery in London in the 1970s, there was a considerable hoo - ha.
The same goes for
geometric shapes: they are basic
forms but they are also part
of the «high» culture; although
simple to construct, they can become complex and charged during the process
of creating an image.
Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects
of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow
of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most
of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more
geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements
of his paintings through use
of simple forms and flat blocks
of nebulous and subtle colour.
While Laget's works seem almost deceptively
simple in their use
of basic
geometric form, Klein's appear so complex as to be almost chaotic.
Like many other artists from that period, he turned to
simple geometric forms, a sort
of stripe in his case, to provide that freedom and flexibility.
As one
of the
simplest geometric figures, the circle is subject to huge variation, in nature and in art, and this exhibition considers the ways in which artists have gravitated to this universal and recurring
form, and to the very idea
of «roundness», through a variety
of processes and media including paintings, sculptures, film and photographic, alongside design objects and historical artefacts.
Adopting Mies van der Rohe's famous motto «less is more», his work is characterised by
simple, smooth, pared - down
geometric shapes that lend themselves to a physical
form of appreciation.
«Resika is recognized for the buoyancy
of his palette and the basic shapes
of his subjects, which are pared down to the
simplest geometric forms — neat little houses in profiles and swishes
of color that define the boats.
Just as he saw squares as referring to cells and prisons, I see very
simple geometric forms as — in part — representations
of social issues surrounding the use and abuse
of specific drugs.
Huntington's portraits
of Harriet Tubman and William Blake, which are punctuated by elementary
geometric shapes, hang near pictures that also, but perhaps coincidentally, interject
simple forms into representational images.