... basic shapes and colors. You can try this too. Just squint your eyes while you are looking at something and all the details will start to disappear. You will see only shapes and color... no real objects. This is what Mondrian did. 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. Abstract art would seem would seem to me as a nice, beautiful composition of shapes and colors drawn in ... on the roof of the ...

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... painting. But beside the actual line form by the words, the whole painting is form by implied lines. 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. Oropallo use ... the evening according to the placement of the camera. 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. The artist choo...

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... of art did not really have any lines. There were edges. Neither painting contained any implied lines either. Both use geometric shape. In the painting Jeffery's Poppies the vase and flowers are geometric shapes. Wish Upon a Shooting Star is also made up of geometric shapes. The trees were circles and cylinders while the grass was just a large green and blue area. The trees were made ... ...

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... me of visits to aquariums where one can walk under fish tanks and watch sea life swimming overhead. With this exhibit, however, one sees fabulous colorful shapes as one looks up at a glass ceiling. The exhibit as a whole was breathtaking. There were pieces that were only about the size of a coffee ... chosen to write about is The Persian Ceiling. This piece is a part of a series that Chihuly did called The Persians. He started this series by just experimenting with geometric shapes and it grew into this series of massive pieces. "When I started the Persians [in 1986], I was thinking of sp...

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... inspired by the different style of paintings called cubism. Though that type of artwork inspired and influenced him, he developed his own sense of style. Mondrian's style contained more of a geometric style, rather than the squarer style seen in cubism, Mondrian named this style neoplasticism. When using this style of painting he only used white, gray, black, and the three primary ... truth. Over time his paintings started to develop a more abstract look to them. Mondrian's paintings were made up of mostly horizontal and vertical lines at a 90-degree angle, representing more geometric s...

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... movement in Milan in 1981. The aim of Memphis was to reinvigorate the radical design movement during the late 1970's, and challenge the idea that products had to follow conventional shapes, colours, textures and patterns. Movements such as Art Deco and Pop Art and styles such as the 1950's Kitsch and futuristic themes inspired them. Their concepts were in contrast to ... is very durable in areas that may be stained or chemically damaged. Michele de lucchi's 'Lido' sofa combines lacquered wood, metal, and fabric in a toy-like combination of shapes and colours. He introduced geometric mot...

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... the inner and outer surfaces of this kylix for his art. A thick black band circumferences the painting on the inner surface of the cup. Then another decorative band with alternating geometric shapes borders the depiction of a bearded figure sitting at an altar on the left side, holding a drinking cup that a younger man fills with wine from a pitcher. The older man is thought ... ...

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