1. African Art
Appendix 1 Modernism started in approximately 1930, images now contained bolder content, abstract beauty, clean crisp lines and geometrical shapes. ... With its simplicity in design it was a step towards minimalism and abstraction, this relied on design such as shape tone and texture to make a bold image. ...
Tadao Ando - The Japanese architects influence on my work through his use of Materials, light and space By neill Lyons It started with me pulling this guys name, whom I had never heard of before out of a hat in 1st year in my formative year at university. I still remember it; sitting there w...
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 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. ...
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...