Project #36 Geometric Paintings

There are many styles of geometric paintings and many artists who make them.  The artworks range from the clean-edged paintings with saturated colors of Hans Jørgen Hvid to the very loose painterly, drippy and scribbly paintings of Stanley Whitney to the even looser drippy and ephemeral paintings  of Joan Mitchell and everything in between.  

Above: Hans Jorgen Hvid.

Above:  Stanley Whitney and Joan Mitchell. 

Below are some examples of geometric paintings of different styles and made with a variety of materials. Some of these are not traditional paintings but made with thread, paper and fabric. I included these works because they are painterly. 

What geometric shapes do you see in them? Squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, half and quarter circles, trapezoids, kites or diamonds, parallelagrams, rhomboids?  There are a lot of interesting geometric shapes and a lot of ways to create them.  

What kind of painting will you make?  With what materials?  Will yours be colorful or tonal?  Or both?  What will the surface be like?  

Susan Simonini,  Acrylic on board

Robbie Austin, Goauche and acrylic over map on canvas

Andrew Graves, soft pastel on velour paper

"Pieces" Oil on gesso panel

"Pieces" Oil on gesso panel

Oil on studio wall

Christophe Peterson

Terry Eskala

Araki Oishii Okaki

Laura Petrovich Cheney, Painted wood on panel

Myungurso  "Arirang 014", paint and fabric on deep panel

Richard Diebenkorn, Oil painting and Charcoal on paper. 

Paul Klee, Static-Dynamic Gradation, Oil and gouache on paper. 

Josef Albers, Study on paper. 

Emma Zhang, Paper on panel

Antique boros, artists unknown from Sri Threads

Igshaan Adams, Weaving with beads.

Arvid Boecker, #1157, Oil on canvas and #1196, Oil on canvas.

Doug Gelless, three paintings (the artist calls them drawings), Acrylic on paper.

Laura Sachs, Noons, Dusk and Noon, Oil on canvas.

Vicki Sher, Oil on canvas. 

Louise Bourgeois, Fabric constructions and Fabric Construction from textile scrapbook Ode a L'Oublie.

Alain Biltereyst, Acrylic on board.

Astrid Drageset,  Paintings on handmade paper

Bjorn, Painted Installation

Shane Drinkwater, two paintings, Acrylic on paper.

Jörn Stoya, Pere Lachaise and Du Be Good To Me, Pigment on canvas. 

Robert Ryman, Acrylic on fiberglass

Imi Knoebel, Acrylic on aluminum

Sebastion Helling,