... the object exactly as it was in the real world. When people began exploring African art they became fascinated with the way that it stood out. African art had strong geometric shapes and solid lines, this fascinated many artists in Europe who were becoming tired with traditional European arts. When explorers first brought the pieces back to Europe Missionaries displayed the work ... the artists who experimented and liked the way African art portrayed things were Geaorges Braque, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Pablo Picasso. Many of Pablo's paintings are known for geometric shap...

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... and fragmentation of images. Related movements also contributed - the orphism or synchronism of Sonia Delaunay and others brought vivid color to the geometric shapes of cubism; futurism celebrated speed, the machine, and the city; and constructivism experimented with new materials and mandated art to facilitate social progress." All of these styles are with out a ... only used art from around the world but from the home front as well. A key art design that was very influential was American Indian art because it was characteristic of geometric stylization and sophisticated patterns. The...

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... ours did. Around 700 BCE there were Compass-drawn decorations, compositions based on axial symmetry; gold torques, chariot fittings and phalera, belt-hooks, scabbards, wine jugs, and sculptures mainly in geometric designs. Then around 400 BCE compositions with radial symmetry alongside those with axial symmetry; red enamel; helmets, sheathes and scabbards, torques, armlets, and red-figure vases appeared. At 450 BCE ... an unusual shape of three Ds, one on top of the other. This is a Claddagh ring, representing friendship, loyalty, and love. The picture is from website 8. Celtic art isn'...

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... be seen from above. Individual steps were not nearly as significant as the overall floor patterns created which had symbolic meanings for the audience. These were based on combinations of geometric shapes such as squares, circles and triangles. Such combinations included two triangles within a circle, which portrayed a monarch's supreme power. Unlike any other production before this point in history, Ballet Comique de ... ...

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... in the work of Pablo Picasso in the movement he and Georges Braque started called Cubism from around 1908 to 1917. Cubist paintings create an ambiguous sense of space through geometric shapes that flatten and simplify form, spatial planes that are broken into fragments, and forms that overlap and penetrate one another. . Art historians generally consider cubism to have been the most ... ...

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... for their talent as copyists and scribes with the artistry displayed in the calligraphy and decorating of manuscripts. Manuscripts were covered in elaborate letters and patterns. Often they would use geometric shapes interwoven with naturalistic figures such as birds, leaves, flowers and reptiles. The book of Keels, part of the Irish Bible, thought to be written between c900-1000 and the Lindisfarne ... ...

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