geometric art
Patterns from polygons
Geometric art uses shapes, lines, and patterns rather than realistic depiction.
The term covers ancient pottery with angular designs, Islamic tilework, twentieth-century abstract painting, and contemporary digital work.
What unites them is emphasis on form over representation: The museum's geometric art collection spans cultures and centuries.
Distinguished from figurative or representational art.
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- SuprematismAbstract geometric art movement
- tessellationGapless plane coverage
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- EscherDutch impossible-geometry artist
Minimalism · Fibonacci sequence · Futurism · mosaic · stained glass · fractals · polyhedra · angles · straight lines · clean lines · circles · hexagons · squares · patterns · grids · crystalline · triangles · precision
- science artscientific illustration, anatomical drawing, botanical illustration, medical illustration, Vitruvian Man
- paintingoil painting, watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints
- abstract artabstract art, abstract expressionism, abstraction, expressionism, abstract composition
- ancient ornamentacanthus, meanders, rosettes, scrollwork, friezes
- geometric arttessellations, fractals, symmetry, spirals, tessellation
- Islamic itemsprayer rug, prayer mat, Islamic calligraphy, juz, Islamic art
geometric artabstract expressionism
Nonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
action painting · automatism · lyrical abstraction · Abstract Expressionism · arabesque
geometric artfigurative art
Art depicting recognizable subjects
realism · naturalism · portraiture · photorealism · landscape painting