All eyes are on Brazil's World Cup but a new Royal Academy exhibition showcases a different kind of South American artistry, and makes a stunning case for the continent's geometric art In 1943, the ...

SÃO PAULO — Geometric abstraction occupies such a prominent place in the history of Brazilian modern and contemporary art that I was surprised to hear that the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) ...

The Geometric Period in Greece, which lasted from approximately 900 to 700 B.C.E., is named after the geometric patterns and motifs that were prevalent on pottery at this time. Scholars subdivide the ...

Taking its title, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, from a painting in the exhibition by the exiled Iranian artist Rokni Haeirzadeh, the third edition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art ...

Eileen MacDonagh's new sculptures demonstrate the beauty of polygons and polyhedra, writes Aidan Dunne. One geometric form predominates in Eileen MacDonagh's exceptional exhibition of sculpture at the ...

The word “geometry” means earth measurement and the subject evolved from measuring plots of land accurately and also from the work of builders and carpenters. So the geometry that we call Euclidean ...

With a roomful of genderless ‘furries’, Ad Minoliti is challenging the male-dominated language of modernism Argentinian artist Ad Minoliti’s work draws on the legacy of geometric abstraction – art ...

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians. Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples ...

Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long assumed that sheer ...

If you like to create geometric designs you may be interested in a new tool called the Blossom which takes the form of a spirograph drawing tool that creates professional geometric art. Launched by ...