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  2. Geometric abstraction - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Geometricae - Wikipedia

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    Geometricae is an art magazine covering international geometric abstraction. It was founded in 2015 [1] as a non-profit digital magazin by a group of artists and art critics led by architect Gianfranco Spada, in Valencia, Spain.

  4. Concrete art - Wikipedia

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    Max Bill "was keen on creating works based on mathematical and geometric foundations—material manifestations of intellectual processes that resisted symbolism." [ 10 ] While Abstraction-Création was a grouping of all modernistic tendencies, there were those within it who carried the idea of mathematically inspired art and the term ...

  5. Category:Abstract art - Wikipedia

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    Media in category "Abstract art" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. František Kupka, 1912, Amorpha, fugue en deux couleurs (Fugue in Two Colors), 210 x 200 cm, Narodni Galerie, Prague.jpg 2,933 × 2,813; 7.28 MB

  6. Abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Abstraction requires selective use of this structural split of abilities in the psyche. The opposite of abstraction is concretism. Abstraction is one of Jung's 57 definitions in Chapter XI of Psychological Types. There is an abstract thinking, just as there is abstract feeling, sensation and intuition. Abstract thinking singles out the rational ...

  7. Light and Space - Wikipedia

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    Dividing the Light (2007), a skyspace by James Turrell at Pomona College. Light and Space denotes a loosely affiliated art movement related to op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction originating in Southern California in the 1960s and influenced by John McLaughlin. [1]

  8. Space (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Fig. 2: Homothety transforms a geometric figure into a similar one by scaling. In ancient Greek mathematics, "space" was a geometric abstraction of the three-dimensional reality observed in everyday life. About 300 BC, Euclid gave axioms for the properties of space. Euclid built all of mathematics on these geometric foundations, going so far as ...

  9. Abstraction (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying structures, patterns or properties of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena.