Geometric abstraction

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Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of simple geometric forms placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective compositions. Throughout 20th century art historical discourse, critics and artists working within the reductive or pure strains of abstraction have often suggested that geometric abstraction represents the height of a non-objective art practice, which necessarily stresses or calls attention to the root plasticity and two-dimensionality of painting as an artistic medium. Thus, it has been suggested that geometric abstraction might function as a solution to problems concerning the need for modernist painting to reject the illusionistic practices of the past while addressing the inherently two dimensional nature of the picture plane as well as the canvas functioning as its support. Wassily Kandinsky, one of the forerunners of pure non-objective painting, was among the first modern artists to explore this geometric approach in his abstract work. Other examples of pioneer abstractionists such as Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian have also embraced this approach towards abstract painting.

However, geometric abstraction cannot only be seen as an invention of 20th century avant-garde artists or movements. It is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as art pieces themselves. Islamic art, in its prohibition of depicting human or animal figures (to prevent believers from idolatry), is a prime example of this geometric pattern-based art. Abstract art has also historically been likened to music in its ability to convey emotional or expressive feelings and ideas without reliance upon or reference to recognizable objective forms already existent in reality. Wassily Kandinsky has discussed this connection between music and painting, as well as how the practice of classical composition had influenced his work, at length in his seminal essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

Expressionist abstract painting, as practiced by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, and Wols, represents the opposite of geometric abstraction.

Artists who have worked extensively in geometric abstraction include Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Ellsworth Kelly, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Frantisek Kupka, Theo van Doesburg, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Piet Mondrian, Victor Vasarely, Max Bill, Nadir Afonso, Vieira da Silva, George Johnson, Peter Graham, Gordon Walters, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, John Levee, Thomas Downing, Ronald Davis, Burgoyne Diller, Leon Goldin, Jack Reilly, Sean Scully, Günter Fruhtrunk, Ilya Bolotowsky, and Larry Zox, among others.

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LAURIE GRANIERI
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Warning: Tom Yezza's abstract graphics may cause dizziness.
Stare them down for more than a few seconds, and the images appear to breathe, detach from the canvas and pulsate on the walls of The Heldrich's second-floor Public Gallery in New Brunswick.
Most of the 31 works on display at the hotel and conference center radiate from a circular core, forming a nexus of diamond shapes that resemble dense mosaic tile patterns or Aztec rugs gone wild; other designs, particularly those in black and white, are steeped in swirling Op-art aesthetics. Not surprisingly, Yezza cites Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher as a seminal influence.
Yezza, a 63-year-old retired data processor from North Jersey, applies the patterns to paper using pen, pencil and paint, scans them and then has the designs printed onto canvas.
"It's very tedious," Yezza admits. He says it's all a matter of "balance. Balance."
It's also a matter of exactitude and relentless ordering.
"See these ceiling tiles?" Yezza says. "I would count them. My mind was always with numbers and mathematics and geometry. I liked it more than I liked school. I didn't like that teacher having power over me."
In Yezza's mind, the numbers hold sway. Yezza retired from data-processing in 1987 and did not plunge into the art world until seven years later, but his former career clearly influences his current passion. He also writes poetry, which he posts on his Web site, www.geometricgraphics.com.
"It's geometry, geometric abstraction," Yezza says, referring to the title of the show, which displays images created during a 10-year span, from 1994 to 2004. "In data processing, there are two numbers: zero and one. There was some kind of rhythm to it, and you could find it." That rhythm — and the reliability of numbers — seems to appeal to a man who has spent his life arranging information.
Nonetheless, Yezza claims he does not map out his designs: "I let it happen," he says. " . . . Just like words come together, so do lines."
Laurie Granieri:
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Published: October 07. 2008 3:50PM Karakter 0

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This author continues to be fascinated by artistic symbolism. For an
artist there are many ways to depart from realism, which is a style,
but also from reality, which is a aspect of life. An artist may want to
escape from reality, such as in fantasy art, or he may want to
transcend reality or discover a deeper reality, which is the domain of
symbolism. I chose to include Michaël Bellon's art in this abstract
artists gallery because of the way he combines geometric abstraction
with the mystique of symbolism. While geometric abstraction (compare
Mondrian, Malevich) seems to be the domain of the cool, analytic mind,
with which symbolic mysticism seems to be at variance, but not in the
art work of Michaël Bellon.

 
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With brush in hand, an easel sits.I know what I must do.
   There she sits, with great beauty. What she expresses, is part of life so true.

    I will release this temptress. She shows such desire.
    Here is mystery so inviting.  With enigmatic fire.
   
   
As she sits, no virtue her! You must stand and look forever.
    The thoughts you must have in your mind. Can you express them? Never.
 
   What a task, what hue, color and tone. Would I capture her lust?
    Her eyes are truly black as coal. She will lure you in. Dare, have no trust.

    I wish to do her and life justice. I wish not to be kind.
    I use these paints with passion. I wish to paralyze your mind.  

  
CAN YOU EXPLAIN HER EXPRESSION???

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This Master Piece is truly on of my favorites.  I can look at  the face  all night. I wonder what he is thinking as I consume
a Rusty Nail ( Scotch mixed with Drambuie). Put one ice cube in the glass and see the blend of color.  Just like the picture above.
 I cannot create or copy anything even if you ask me to paint any existing item or object.
My Geometric Abstraction is at the opposite end of something so great.
My two favorite colors are black and gold.  Click   My Black and Gold   Please click the back arrow to return here.

My images are created as a result of anger and jealousy.
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About the Artwork
	Jan Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” painted with masterly command of color, extraordinary realism and glittering, pearly highlights, is an enigmatic masterpiece which holds similar mysteries as the man who painted her. Very little is known about Vermeer (1632 – 1675), a Dutch artist specializing in lyrical, domestic interior scenes so expressively painted that they transcended the mundane. Although he only produced 35 paintings in his lifetime, Vermeer is considered to be one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

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Really,universally, relations stop nowhere and the exquisite problem
of the artist is eternally but to draw by a geometry of his own
the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
  Henry James    1843 - 1916


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