... and symmetrical patterns. As the dominant style changed from Protogeometric to Geometric, this order and precision was amplified. The popular "circle and semicircle patterns were replaced by linear designs, zigzags, triangles, diamonds, and meanders" (Cunningham and Reich, 40). The increased interest in order seems to have been a reflection of the Greek fascination with nature, and man's relationship to nature. This interest ... ...

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... and symmetrical patterns. As the dominant style changed from Protogeometric to Geometric, this order and precision was amplified. The popular "circle and semicircle patterns were replaced by linear designs, zigzags, triangles, diamonds, and meanders" (Cunningham and Reich, 40). The increased interest in order seems to have been a reflection of the Greek fascination with nature, and man's relationship to nature. This interest ... ...

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... . Sometime after 1958 Miss Martin began to evolve her grid schema. In her first protogrid compositions, the arrangement of the geometrical elements "which might be dots, circles, or tiny triangles as well as dashes and lines "was enclosed within a rectangular field. For example, Whispering (1963), a watercolor on paper, is composed of white spindle-shaped objects with blue ends, arranged ... ...

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