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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Parallel and perpendicular lines, symmetry, and geometric shapes are very apparent. ... Geometric shapes and inorganic lines are not as emphasized in comparison to Leonardo da Vinci's painting. ...

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Each artist also uses assorted shapes and various colors to create bold impressions. ... Georgia O"Keefe painted amplified flowers and landscapes as well as geometrically structured views of New York City. ... "Jack in the Pulpit" is a painting inspired by her teacher - her teacher brought the flower so the students could appreciate its shape and color. ... His fluid curving lines defined his abstract shapes. ... He used the visual elements of line, shape, time, color, and light to illuminate and enhance the yellow color of the birds and unusual colors of the leaves. ...

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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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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. ...

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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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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. ...

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