... which covers a majority of the background is a heavily saturated red hue contrasting light to dark red incorporating patches of heavy shading. Circulinear clouds float through the sky creating organic shapes. The top right portion of the painting a goat moves in implied motion as it passes through the clouds, (Chagall chose to use goats floating through the sky in several ... actual straight line separates the water from three distinct pyramids ranging from small to large, each has its own color contrast (yellow, red and orange). All three are made of geometric shape (triangular) actua...

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... . In the 19th century graphics was based on poster art. The form was very organic (art nouveau). After 1900 there was a move towards geometric form and abstraction. Shapes started to permeate into graphics. Neville Brody's work is very geometric. Balance and order started to appear in magazines. Colour is expressive and a sign. All art and design is a system of signs:-Semiotics. ... frequent references to art and design history. The Memphis style came about in 1947 by Ettore Sottass Jr. He has executed a series of graphics combining Constructivist forms and gaily coloured geometric debr...

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... 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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... the entire picture's space in a whole new way. Basically, he painted in a way that made the canvas surface seem raised, which produced a different effect. He did this by using geometrical shapes- the cone, cylinder, cube, and others- as building blocks for the objects he painted. It is easier to synthesize the three hundred and fifty years separating Impressionism from the High ... I like. He has been called a master thief'. But what he takes he conforms into his own pure ingeniousity (Lamplight 4). The ideas of Cézanne amazed Picasso in that the different shapes gave so many possibili...

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... somewhat gloomy tone which is consistent with Benton's time period and style of the Great Depression. In Derain's piece he uses "thick and heavy brushstrokes (CM)" shown through geometric lines by the vertical trees and the horizontal road, while in Benton's piece, undulating and flowing organic lines are used which do not seem ... geometric at all. Another significant difference between the paintings is that much of the detail is omitted in The Turning Road and the figures are simplified into vivid Fauvism shapes (CM), while in the Haystack, you can clearly see the detailing of the hor...

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... of his experimental artworks. Even though Matisse was imitating nature, it is very hard to grasp what it is exactly that he has painted. He extensively simplified the matter into a geometric composition, with a very limited palette of colors - "a single color stands for water, sky, and shadow, as well as for oil and canvas"4, hence the only clue to the subject is ... the way he applied paint from the palette or tube, onto the canvas, set the colors in motion. Kandinsky observed that colors and shapes had their own rhythm or weight in a painting. He tried to weave these colors and shapes...

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... subjects of their paintings were deliberately distorted. Cubism was thought to be the most influential movement in the history of modern art. Typical cubist paintings analyze the subject in basic geometric shapes. The artist also often tried to show the subject from several view points at the same time. Surrealism took place between 1920 and 1950. Surrealism is an invented word meaning ... ...

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