Busacca Gallery

Mark Busacca's large painting, "Hard-edge Abstraction: Light and Line," is influenced by the flat architectural shadows and geometric colors of light. The artwork, created using a geometric acrylic medium on canvas, reflects Busacca's fascination with graphic painting and geometric forms spanning the last 40 years. The goal is to invite people to appreciate the beauty within graphic lines. The art represents various movements and geographical backgrounds. It features images of flat, intersecting planes and floating shapes associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard-edge abstraction. These movements share a common interest in the investigation of reductive form and color. Busacca continues to explore the infinite potential of simple geometric geometries and design in his ongoing artistic journey.

Geometric art and graphic design have a fascinating history that spans various cultures and periods. From ancient civilizations with intricate mosaics to the Islamic Golden Age's mathematical patterns, geometric principles have influenced art for centuries. The Renaissance introduced perspective, while the 20th century saw movements like Constructivism, Bauhaus, and De Stijl embracing geometric abstraction. Op Art in the 1960s explored optical illusions through geometry, and contemporary artists like Mark Busacca continue the tradition with hard-edge abstraction. In the digital age, geometric shapes play a significant role in graphic design, reflecting a continuous exploration of form and color across time.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_art

A 2D geometric model is a geometric model of an object as a two-dimensional figure, usually on the Euclidean or Cartesian plane.



Even though all material objects are three-dimensional, a 2D geometric model is often adequate for certain flat objects, such as paper cut-outs and machine parts made of sheet metal.



2D geometric models are also convenient for describing certain types of artificial images, such as technical diagrams, logos, the glyphs of a font, etc.





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



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.



In the Early Geometric period (900–850 BC), the height of the vessels had been increased, while the decoration is limited around the neck down to the middle of the body of the vessel. The remaining surface is covered by a thin layer of clay, which during the cooking takes a dark, shiny, metallic color. That was the period when the decorative theme of the meander was added to the pottery design, the most characteristic element of Geometric art.



By the Middle Geometric period (850–760 BC), the decorative zones appear multiplied due to the creation of a laced mesh, while the meander dominates and is placed in the most important area, in the metope, which is arranged between the handles.