Geometric Abstraction
Geometric Abstraction identifies a modern art movement which uses geometric shapes and forms in abstraction. It emerged in the early 20th century, particularly in the 1910s and 1920s. This style sought to eliminate all components not fundamental to the art such as simplicity, precision, and purity of form. Artists in this movement, like Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, and Theo van Doesburg, attempted to communicate universal ideas thought to be self-evident in every culture alongside an intrinsic spiritual harmony which every human can feel.
It gained even further notoriety during the interwar period as it encouraged how lines, shapes, and colors can be used to generate emotional or intellectual response without the necessity of imagery. It represented a break, and often an even more radical one, from the more natural forms of art and shifted towards a more conceptual and subjective idea of creating art, finally abandoning the naturalistic attitude of the previous art.
Also notable for spatial emphasis, Geometric Abstraction creates images by means of combination of basic socalled building shapes containing clear contours and rhythmic simplicity. In most cases, images representing such combination are repetitively patterned, grid-like, and often have no color or a limited color spectrum. Substracting non ideas In modernistic and constructivistic art, simple forms which are separately perceived through which even the most subjective art can be divorced from its isolation and connected with basic aesthetic principles. The bold use of elements of geometry brings forthed uninterrupted appeal of Geometric Abstraction, which shows its relevance in contemporary art and design.
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