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Fine art: Geometric constructions exploring the infinite, especially mirror mosaics [24] Ferguson, Helaman: 1940– Digital art: Algorist, Digital artist [3] Forakis, Peter: 1927–2009: Sculpture: Pioneer of geometric forms in sculpture [25] [26] Grossman, Bathsheba: 1966– Sculpture: Sculpture based on mathematical structures [27] [28] Hart ...
George William Hart (born 1955) [1] is an American sculptor and geometer. Before retiring, he was an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City and then an interdepartmental research professor at Stony Brook University.
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".
Roland David Smith (March 9, 1906 – May 23, 1965) was an influential and innovative American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter, widely known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. Born in Decatur, Indiana, Smith initially pursued painting, receiving training at the Art Students League in New York from 1926 to 1930 ...
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 ...
Rickey turned from painting to creating kinetic sculpture. Rickey combined his love of engineering and mechanics by designing sculptures whose metal parts moved in response to the slightest air currents. His first sculpture was shown in New York in 1951 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art group show American Sculpture 1951.
The group's title was suggested by Villon, after reading a 1910 translation of Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting by Joséphin Péladan. Péladan attached great mystical significance to the golden section (French: nombre d'or), and other similar geometric configurations. For Villon, this symbolized his belief in order and the ...
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 ...