Geometrism

The word geometrism first appeared in the New York Times in the 1920s to describe post-cubist geometric art.
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Georges Braque was a pioneer & purist by sticking with his style of simplifying his subject matter using geometric shapes much in the manner of the Dutch De Stijl with the purist use of straight lines/rectangles/squares and primary colours. Piet Mondrian was a pioneers of this movement because his unwillingness to "compromise" in his form of expression. Bauhaus examples include Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, who played important roles again with simple geometry & functionalism dictating art and design where "artists" were also designers. Revolutionary art and design movements were constructivism and suprematism (mainly an ideology) in 1920s Russia. Here again the artists were almost given carte blanche to design in every field, including architecture and engineering. Vladimir Tatlin designed a prototype helicopter, Naum Gabo designed a radio transmitter in 1920 and El Lissitsky designed the "Red Wedge" propaganda poster. Posters of this painting consisting of a red wedge entering a white circle on a black background. Geometrism started around the 1920s, though for many years it was subliminal, as it did not fit in the "fashion of the times".

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