My pictures refer to 20th century art historical developments like Suprematism, Constructivism, De Stijle, Concrete Art, Abstraction-Création, Neoplasticism, Op Art etc. whose many different attitudes are attributable to the concept of geometric a...
(more)My pictures refer to 20th century art historical developments like Suprematism, Constructivism, De Stijle, Concrete Art, Abstraction-Création, Neoplasticism, Op Art etc. whose many different attitudes are attributable to the concept of geometric abstraction, a tendency to establish harmonious pictorial structures in a deliberately constructed way liberated from representational motifs by using simple geometric forms.
The preferred visually determining motifs like square, circle, triangle, trapezoid etc. predominantly derive from the geometry of Greek mathematician Euclid (365 - 300 BC).The geometry however underlying my iconography is that of fractal geometry, a language appropriate to depict basic schemes of order in a deterministic chaos. The term "fractal" derived from the Latin word "fractus"("fragmented" or "broken") was coined in 1975 by the mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot (The Fractal Geometry of Nature) and means any pattern that reveals greater complexity as it is enlarged, while traditional Euclidean figures (square, circle and so forth) appear simpler as they are magnified.