1. African Art
While in Islamic Art, the traditions of calligraphy, vegetal ornament, and geometric patterning are strongly expressed in most pieces on view. ... The two pieces of art have differences in the use of shapes and colors. ... The Byzantine painting is simpler; it has fewer amounts of shapes and difficult drawings. Instead, it is more natural, not so geometrically perfect, the shapes aren't the square, triangle or circle, is like painted with inspiration. ... Meanwhile the Islamic piece is geometrically perfect, has a lot of details, it has straight lines, squares, rectangles, triangles, etc....
The Mayan Temple can be described as a perfect example of the utilization of geometric lines. ... Its title would imply exactly what it is but also that the artist used triangles to represent the shape of the Mayan Temples. ... The pattern itself is a geometric shape, separating each one by the use of color. ... As I walked into this very large and very lighted room, I couldn't help but feel attracted by the multitude of bold colors and shapes that opened my curiosity to explore....
Mondrian's style contained more of a geometric style, rather than the squarer style seen in cubism, Mondrian named this style neoplasticism. ... Mondrian's paintings were made up of mostly horizontal and vertical lines at a 90-degree angle, representing more geometric shapes. ...
She created this art work using geometric shapes, instead of organic shapes. Because the containers are manmade, we can see all the geometric shapes that are in it; from the roundness of the containers, to the bolts that hold the top of the containers together. ... Also because of the sources of the lighting we can see the value of this art work; we can see the shapes of the container, the roundness of it. ...
He started to study African art and then started to paint distorted human shapes. In 1907 went through a discovery stage of Cubism which is breaking up composition into geometric shapes to show the subject from more than one angle at time. ...
In contrast, the Greek style of pottery was called Geometric from 1000-700 B.C. ... The pottery of the late Geometric Period (1000-700 B.C.) is characterized by two-dimensional stylized patterns, effectively designed but bearing little relation to nature. Between 700 and 600 B.C. this geometric style gave way to new interest in representation and Asian influence encouraged the use of floral and arabesque designs and the adoption of Asian monster and animal themes. With influences from the Near East and Egypt, shapes in Greek art became larger and more curvilinear in the Orientalizing period...
"Confluence and Influence: Photography and the Japanese Print in 1850- By the nineteenth century, new forms of art were emerging and artists were now searching for ways to "unite objective reality and artful perception."" Photography and East Asian art, particularly the Japanese print, were am...
The tragic events of Klimt's past helped shape the dark themes and symbolism often misinterpreted in his artwork. ... He believed that the square was a remarkable shape that bathed its subject in peace and integrated it with the universe. ...