Busacca Gallery

Geometric Acrylic Watercolor Wash Medium By Mark Busacca: A little acrylic watercolor painting study and graphic painting on paper with mixed Prismacolor and water based colored pencils. Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. In this painting I used paint as a color, but also as a cover for the white paper. Surveys the widespread and recurring impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art. The art is representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are featured: with their images of flat, intersecting planes and floating shapes; This is associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard-edge abstraction, whose primary interest lay in the investigation of reductive form and color; As I continue to exploit the infinite potential of simple geometries.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Art

Geometric Art is a phase of Greek art, characterised largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages, circa 900 BCE to 700 BCE. Its centre was in Athens, and it was diffused amongst the trading cities of the Aegean. Protogeometric period

During the Protogeometric period (1050-900 BC) the shapes of the vessels have eliminated the fluid nature of the Mycenaean, the form has become strict and simple and they are divided into horizontal decorative bands with a few written geometric shapes within, usually concentric cycles or semicircles engraved with a caliper. Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Throughout 20th century art historical discourse, critics and artists working within the reductive or pure strains of abstraction have often suggested that geometric abstraction represents the height of a non-objective art practice, which necessarily stresses or calls attention to the root plasticity and two-dimensionality of painting as an artistic medium. Thus, it has been suggested that geometric abstraction might function as a solution to problems concerning the need for modernist painting to reject the illusionistic practices of the past while addressing the inherently two dimensional nature of the picture plane as well as the canvas functioning as its support. Wassily Kandinsky, one of the forerunners of pure non-objective painting, was among the first modern artists to explore this geometric approach in his abstract work. Other examples of pioneer abstractionists such as Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian have also embraced this approach towards abstract painting.