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Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1994), known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. [1] Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".
Sculpture [132] 1935 White marble L 55.9 Art Institute of Chicago: LH 161 Image online [136] Reclining Figure [137] 1936 Elm wood L 88.9 Buffalo AKG Art Museum: LH 162 Image online [138] Reclining Figure [139] 1936 Elm wood L 106.7 The Hepworth Wakefield: LH 175 Image online [140] Four Forms [141] 1936 African wonder stone L 55.9 Eskenazi ...
Geometric abstraction is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as art pieces themselves. Islamic art, in its prohibition of depicting religious figures, is a prime example of this geometric pattern-based art, which existed centuries before the movement in Europe and in many ways influenced this Western ...
Fine art: Photographs and paintings of mathematical models in Dada and Surrealist art [37] Naderi Yeganeh, Hamid: 1990– Fine art: Exploration of tessellations (resembling rep-tiles) [38] [39] Pacioli, Luca: 1447–1517: Fine art: Polyhedra (e.g. rhombicuboctahedron) in Renaissance art; [19] [40] proportion, in his book De divina proportione ...
Self-portrait with his wife, Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painting Henrik Wilhelm Peill, at and by Alexander Roslin Aiding a Comrade , at and by Frederic Remington Cymon and Iphigenia , by Frederic Leighton
He stopped using colour (apart from in his graphic and geometric work) and began a period of 20 years working primarily with charcoal and cellulose acetate on canvas. Using iconic images; the cross and the grid. Allen described his work as being: "concerned with evolving and manifesting simple and direct images of a "concrete" nature.
Sculptures and statues can provide a fascinating insight into the time they were made. And sometimes, they contain little “secrets”—details that reveal the mind of the creator, or just make ...
Mathematical sculpture by Bathsheba Grossman, 2007. A mathematical sculpture is a sculpture which uses mathematics as an essential conception. [1] [2] Helaman Ferguson, George W. Hart, Bathsheba Grossman, Peter Forakis and Jacobus Verhoeff are well-known mathematical sculptors.