In his Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, Mondrian, uses straight vertical and horizontal black lines to divide his canvas into rectangles of primary colors. Piet Mondrian is another artist who used geometric shapes in paintings.Frank Stella's Hyena Stomp uses geometric shapes.įrank Stella, Hyena Stomp ,1962, Tate, © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2022. ' Frank Stella Hyena-Stomp-1962' by ateliertally is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.In this work, Arp is dancing on the “edge of order.” The orientation of those shapes roughly approximates a grid structure, but again, their deviation from a regular order implies a chaotic and accidental arrangement. While squares are geometric objects, Arp’s torn and irregular edges transform them into organic shapes.
Hans Arp (1886-1966, France, lived Switzerland), in his work Untitled, used torn paper and cut shapes to create an abstract composition.Geometric shapes are mathematically regular and precise.
