Sentences with phrase «very simple geometric forms»

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.

Not exact matches

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».

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.

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.