Geometric Squares

Becky is back with another Square Challenge this January.

We’ll mostly be looking for shapes and lines, or anything geometric that has been created by animators, architects, artists, astronomers, carpenters, cartographers, designers, engineers, landscape gardeners, navigators, scientists, urban planners, and . . . . . Well everyone really as this branch of mathematics seems to be part of everyday life.

Wall Drawing #1136 Curved and straight colour bands 2004 is composed of bands of vibrant acrylic paint applied directly onto the walls. It has been produced for Tate St Ives by a team of draftspersons, guided by an assistant from the artist’s estate.

Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) revolutionised art in the 1960s with his notion that ‘the idea becomes a machine that makes the art’. The drawing has been adapted from LeWitt’s original plan to work with the complex architecture of the gallery space, while retaining precise details such as the sequence of colours and bands. Each band is of the same width and there is no area of the wall left unpainted. The work incorporates every primary (red, yellow, blue) and secondary (green, orange, purple) colour, plus grey.

Geometric Squares | Day 17

If you want to join in either daily, weekly or just on the odd occasion then please visit Becky, the only rule is that the photo MUST be a square – that is four equal sides! You have been warned 😉

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Heyjude

I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.

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    1. I remember visiting when they had some pop art on show and I had to leave the room as it was making me nauseous!

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