... in technology, mass production, and social transformation. While Lissitzky was teaching architecture and graphic design at the Artistic Technical Institute in Vitebsk, his art shifted from figuration to geometric abstraction. Under the tutelage of Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich, Lissitzky began a body of work he would later call Prouns (Project for the Affirmation of the New). These ... the potential of the new formal language for utilitarian design. The term Constructivism has frequently been used since the 1920s, in a looser fashion, to evoke a continuing tradition of geometric ...

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... the 1950s were attacked by Stella in terms of their own grandiose dimensions. With clues taken from the refreshingly clear parallel and concentric geometric forms of Jasper Johns' early flags and targets, Stella managed to unearth a technique and style that twisted even the masters' artistic ... the explorations of The Black Paintings. In these works he introduced notched edges at the perimeters of the canvas which corresponded to the geometric repetitions of the stripe patterns.10 Stella's paint choice would shift to a tone more achromatic than that of his previous black pictures ... ...

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Canadian-American artist Agnes Martin is best known for geometric paintings based on grid patterns. Like many of the abstract expressionists with whom her work is associated, Martin rejected figurative images in attempting to portray her state of mind. In ... defined, her paintings give an ineffable pleasure to those who allow themselves the time to absorb the subtle nuances of line and tonalities that make complex networks of seemingly simple geometric patterns. As the Artforum critic Lizzie Borden put it, they demand "a higher degree of consciousness as the response of the viewer to almost...

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... nationality. Another Dutch-born artist by the name of Jacob Hendrik Pierneef came in to prominence during the first years of the 1900s. Pierneef brought the representation of landscapes and a geometric evenness about his work that stood out amongst the others. Though their class was predominantly male-dominated, female South African artists still shone through the others – Maggie Laubscher, born ... ...

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... Gorky, Pollock and de Kooning."" By the 1951 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, the term was used to refer to all types of non-geometric abstraction. There are two distinct groups within the movement: Color Field artists worked with simple, unified blocks of color, and gestural painters like Pollock, De Kooning and Hofmann who made ... ...

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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 ... ...

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... Architectural Style, it is this driving force behind the movement that makes it negative. Trying to implement the International Typography Style in every single design simply because it's a timeless, minimal, geometric and self-referential carrier of messages, restricts the creative boundaries in which designers are able to communicate to an audience. Designers should be able to consider new letterforms when designing ... ...

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