Geometric

Geometric style is one of the most oldest one in art: an entire part of the artistic production in Ancient Greece was dedicated to this mode, interesting above all ceramic works dated between 900 and 700 bC and divided into two periods: proto-geometric and geometric.

Egyptian style continued this tendency, with its forms and its strict approach, instead during Roman Art, the attention on measures and geometric forms started to decline.

Geometric art reappears during the last century, principally thanks to Enrico Baj and Joan Mirò. The french artist filled the prestigious pages and covers of Derrière le Miroir (the artistic magazine published for the first time in 1946) with its surrealistic drawings and coloured forms, becoming one of the most important artist of Paris and Europe. Circles and red and green lines are his most recurrent geometric features.

In Italy, we have Enrico Baj who gave life to characters belonging to a dreamlike world: they seem like monsters, with deformed figures floating in the air. Each one are made thanks to the assembly of lines and geometric traits: so the eyes are made by perfect circles, the hair by short straight lines, the nose by rectangles.

Finally the young Leonard Combier, who realized artworks (coloured or black and white) with a geometric style: the basic elements of each figure are always a geometric form (for example, faces are made by a set of lines, circles, etc...) so the result is simple, but also very sophisticated.