My work comes out of an anxious need to control time and space on a limited human scale, which is the scale of a painting, a ...
The great grandfather of geometric abstract painting was Piet Mondrian but his ideas of great simplicity -- few colors, fewer lines -- have been expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, ...
Claude Monet’s palette of blues, Vincent van Gogh’s bright yellows, the city of Oaxaca’s vibrant red and a Chicago-style hot dog. They’re all forms of inspiration in artist Chip Fesko’s watercolor ...
Don Voisine, "Odalisque" (2023), oil and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 60 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York) By the time I reviewed Don Voisine’s work in 2013, he was a veteran ...
Benjamín Moncloa, “Los Reyes Magos” (1956) (All images by the author for Hyperallergic) LIMA, Peru — Geometric abstraction is one of those art movements that, depending on the viewer, either resonates ...
When South Korea was in political turmoil in the 1960s, after the Korean War and during the early days of the democracy movement, painter Lee Seung-jio (1941-1990) was at the center of the country’s ...
All eyes are on Brazil's World Cup but a new Royal Academy exhibition showcases a different kind of South American artistry, and makes a stunning case for the continent's geometric art In 1943, the ...
From color-blocked murals to abstract wallpapers and criss-cross wainscoting, geometric accent walls have been making waves in recent years, as many seek to inject a bit of oomph into their spaces.
Can we speak of a geometric abstractionist tradition within postwar American art? In 1936, when Alfred Barr, the director of the then-new Museum of Modern Art, wrote that the two main strands of ...