... the values upheld by the masters of 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 point of view. Ravishing chromatic subtleties and individualized choices ... canvases called the Aluminum Paintings that extended the explorations of The Black Paintings. In these works he introduced notched edges at the perimeters of the canvas which corresponded...

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... diverse ways, a break with abstract expressionism. As more than one critic has noted, Miss Martin's work of the time does have certain affinities with Kelly's brightly colored paintings of geometrical shapes. For example, her twelve-inch-square painting Islands No. 1 (1960), a work in oil and pencil on canvas that was included in the Whitney show, consists of a rectangular grid ... to paint biomorphic abstractions with a line that became progressively lighter and more fluid. Within a few years, however, she abandoned figurative imagery for subjective, abstract landscape forms that gradu...

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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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... 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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