The geometric style has recently become increasingly popular. Fans of clear lines, precision and conciseness, he liked. But this style appeared and came into use not in our time, but many thousands of years ago. Even remember the cave paintings of primitive people. There are also geometric shapes. The geometric style was used and continues to be used in different directions of art.
Geometry Development Process
The geometric style was born around 700-900 BC. Athens is considered the place of its appearance. Over time, it spread to the Aegean. This style is characterized by clear details, lines, geometric shapes - circles, squares, rhombuses, triangles and others. Details of the geometric style are now found even during excavations of the Stone Age. The inscriptions are mostly similar to figures and resemble ornaments. The name itself was first used in 1870, when dipilonian vases appeared.
Where is geometric style used?
Geometrization has been and remains so popular and relevant that it is widely used in various fields of art. Wherever we observe geometric shapes. For example, the production of jewelry and jewelry. Geometry is a manifestation of minimalism, where everything should be simple, without pretentiousness and taste, and jewelry in this style is always appropriate and refined. If you want something unusual and extravagant in a geometric style, then pay attention to 3D-decorations. There is always something to see, but not for everyone. In manicure, this style is also welcome. Simple lines or the image of the animal's face with geometric shapes is a favorite and popular design.
The image of geometry in art
Initially, in ancient times, the geometric style began with the drawing of ornaments: horizontal stripes, between them placed a decor of geometric shapes. After that, somewhere in 770 BC, modified images of animals and people begin to appear. It was an abstract vision of the human body. Men were painted with an oval head, a triangular body and with long cylindrical limbs. In women, instead of hair, there were rows of stripes, and the chest was represented by strokes near the armpits.
Ancient Greece vase painting style
Vase painting is the painting of any items of utensils on which paints were applied, and then fired. The most common types of vessels, which are a frequent find in the excavations of Ancient Greece, were amphoras, craters (bowls), kiliks (bowls for wine). The largest centers for the development of ancient Greek vase painting are considered Corinth and Athens. Initially, its origin was attributed to Italy, after the first vases were found during archaeological excavations of the Etruscan burial site, their belonging to the geometric style of Ancient Greece was established already at the end of the 19th century. Although this painting is called a vase painting, they painted not only vases, but also various items of utensils. The most beautiful of them were donated to the gods or left in burials. They depicted various scenes from life, such as a wedding, a feast, military operations, as well as mythological themes beloved in Greece.
There are several types of vases of ancient Greece that appeared in different periods.
- Black-figure painting. It was dominated by the image of figures of people who, after firing, remained painted black.
- Red-figure painting. The most popular here were mythological stories. In this type of painting, the background was black, and the drawings were not painted over, leaving them red.
- On white background. White paint was used as a basis in this technique and figures of other colors were applied to it.
An important aspect in pottery was, of course, the quality of clay. And, as we see, it was quite satisfactory, because many vessels are well preserved to this day. The Greeks were also very careful about the drawing process. This was done immediately before firing. The clay was shaped, dried, the foundation was applied, and then they began to draw using various tools. Large vases were turned into a real work of art, painting them completely with some event in life.
Geometric Tattoos
Nowadays, the geometric style is popular not in ceramics, but in the art of applying underwear - tattoos. It may seem that it is difficult to find something beautiful in the image of lines and figures on the body, but this is not so. Geometric style tattoos are unusual and very effective. Cubes, cones, balls, polygons, lines in the hands of a tattoo master turn into incredibly beautiful images on the body.
Geometric patterns are flowers, female figures, animals. At the heart of this is the use of straight and curved lines. Geometric style tattoos can be located on any part of the body and can be of different sizes - both on the entire back and on the phalange of the finger. It all depends on the preferences of the client.
Geometric signs have always been symbols of a certain mystery. A large number of lines connected in one sketch turns into an intricate pattern that can conceal a deep meaning. Each figure has a certain meaning in it, and before you apply a geometric tattoo to your body, you need to find out what this or that figure is hiding in itself.