... . 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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