The same week in design fundamentals class we were studying the composition of geometrical and organic shapes and color values. I was assigned a project to create a collage, a means for beginners t learn the techniques of composition by putting together geometrical and organic shapes of deferent color in any imaginative way. ... Eventually, Mondrian's style consisted of geometric shapes and primary colors. After all, every shape can be created from the basic geometric shapes and every color can be created from the primaries -- red, yellow, and blue. ... Van Gogh used geometrical shapes ...

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He created an idealized landscape adjusting natural and man-made forms according to geometric principles. ... Victoire (29-39) illustrates the three-dimensional quality of the landscape he sought to create by using color applied in geometric shapes. ... Although Cézanne sought a geometric underpinning for his art, he never abandoned the forms of nature for those of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone, as his followers, the Cubists, were to do....

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What intrigued me about this painting is that unlike most of Picasso's other paintings this one is not an abstract view of expression, although he uses many angular shapes and lines to contour the woman. ... What I like most about this is the humor that was installed not only through the shapes and images, but the texture that pulls it together. What draws me in is the sharp geometric shapes on the lobster which creates a fierce image compared to the much more organic shapes on the cat. This painting combines humor and fear of the two animals duel with contrasts of texture, shapes, and co...

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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. ...

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Stuart Davis' works of the late 1930's celebrate the urban and technological environment and are quite complex and frequently recall Legers's brightly coloured geometric forms. ... There are many forms of geometric shapes used in this painting. The shapes used in this painting again show the unpredictability of jazz, as well as the vibrancy of that music form. ...

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This oil painting is rectangular in shape, 22 ½ x 44 ½ inches. ... Its size is 17 5/8 x 12 7/8 and derived from his 1975 painting of the same title (Lotz). 4 Bacon's style was of strong emotions, distorted figurative subjects, isolated and often framed by geometric shapes (Lutz). ...

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In Derain's piece he uses "thick and heavy brushstrokes (CM)" shown through geometric lines by the vertical trees and the horizontal road, while in Benton's piece, undulating and flowing organic lines are used which do not seem geometric at all. Another significant difference between the paintings is that much of the detail is omitted in The Turning Road and the figures are simplified into vivid Fauvism shapes (CM), while in the Haystack, you can clearly see the detailing of the horse and the workers and even the shading on the hay and rocks. ...

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"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...

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He extensively simplified the matter into a geometric composition, with a very limited palette of colors - "a single color stands for water, sky, and shadow, as well as for oil and canvas"4, hence the only clue to the subject is, the title of the artwork. ... Kandinsky observed that colors and shapes had their own rhythm or weight in a painting. He tried to weave these colors and shapes into compositions, with as much emotional power as music. ...

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Art, it's everywhere you look. From the billboards you see every day to the pictures you take with your camera. It exists on every continent and every country. Art has been around sense the beginning of time and still thrives today. This essay is to inform and highlight some of the most importan...

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