... or fused together, creating unity in the work and a shallow sense of space. These characteristics can be seen a little more drastically in Les Demoiselles d"Avignon, where Picasso uses sharp, geometric lines and angular, overlapping planes, and dehumanizes the figures by giving them distorted bodies and mask-like faces. Picasso also creates a flat appearance by "fusing the figures together without much ... scene or of weight in the forms" (Picasso's Art p.54). Some of the features present in Picasso's work are also shown in Leger's The City. Here Leger depicts a "strong geometric compos...

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... with Saint John on Patmos (1640), Nicholas Poussin used linear perspective to demonstrate his knowledge of geometry. He created an idealized landscape adjusting natural and man-made forms according to geometric principles. In the ruins in the foreground/background, a cube, a three dimensional rectangle, and a cylinder are represented in perfect perspectival form, each illustrating a different aspect of foreshortening. The pathway recedes into ... of depth. Bibliography Similar to Poussin, Cézanne's Mont Sainte?Victoire (29-39) illustrates the three-dimensional quality of the landscape ...

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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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... , in other words I paint the American scene." Stuart Davis' works of the late 1930's celebrate the urban and technological environment and are quite complex and frequently recall Legers's brightly coloured geometric forms. Early works depict saloons and ragtime musicians. Titles and images of his works in the 30's reflect syncopation and unusual rhythm of jazz, particularly swing . Jean-Michel Basquiat was ... . The colors give a feeling of jazz with the use of blues and cool colors. The use of the warm colors shows the unpredictability of jazz. There are many forms of geometric shapes us...

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... texture, value, and color. Short straight lines used in a diagonal way comprise most of the visible brush strokes. There are a lot of organic shapes in the painting, and the very geometric shapes of the building and the tombs in the piece oppose them. A large tree dominates the picture on the right, and some enormous clouds enhance the natural feel of the ... the rainbow in the clouds. Imagery such as this leaves me with the feeling that death is a dark and ominous thing, but that it is somehow an ok thing. The geometric shapes in the painting stand out but somehow are downplayed by the...

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... most about this is the humor that was installed not only through the shapes and images, but the texture that pulls it together. What draws me in is the sharp geometric shapes on the lobster which creates a fierce image compared to the much more organic shapes on the cat. This painting combines humor and fear of the two animals duel with ... but then for some reason added a dark blob in the middle of the entire canvas and added a splatter effect to the whole work of art. I guess I didn't get the vibrant geometric feel of what the painting should be. The last work off art to my disliking ...

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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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... to maintain the balance, like the woman in the purple dress at the very front. The scene (like all the scenes created in pointillism) is fairly realistic even if its geometric visual characteristics don't make it appear as such, especially considering that it was taken from an actual happening that went on every Sunday at the Island; and we can clearly ... ...

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... sculptures suggested a new way of seeing the human form- from several sides at once, rather than from the fixed perspective of the traditional two dimensions. These visions combined with the geometric shapes and broke out into a revolutionary painting that shocked Picasso's critics, friends, and fellow artists alike. In 1907 Picasso began work on his breakthrough painting- a picture so large that he ... ...

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... piano with the strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another to cause vibrations in the soul." From around 1920 on, his style became quite geometric. Kandinsky seemed to have an optimistic view on the future, as displayed in his painting "Moscow 1". In "Moscow 1", Wassily shows the city as a sort of utopia, even though at this ... ...

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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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... . Its size is 17 5/8 x 12 7/8 and derived from his 1975 painting of the same title (Lotz). 4 Bacon's style was of strong emotions, distorted figurative subjects, isolated and often framed by geometric shapes (Lutz). The focal point is a naked human form of a man. Only the back half, and two thirds of the body are shown; no head or arms can be seen ... ...

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... be a landscape scene, but as Braque has painted it, it leaves room for interpretation. Analytical cubism can be characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes. In keeping with early Cubist works, the facets or fragments each represented a different view. By showing several different sides at once it ... ...

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