Geometric Abstraction.
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Jane Frank: "Crags and Crevices" (1961) and Golden Rectangles.
Jane Frank: "Crags and Crevices" (1961)
Jane Frank: "Crags and
Crevices" (1961): oil and spackle on
canvas, 70 inches by 50 inches. This was
the largest and most striking canvas in
Jane Frank's 1962 solo exhibition at the
Corcoran Gallery. As Prof. Phoebe
Stanton wrote, "Nothing in the painting
is still, for the big forms seem to
hover in mid-air, colliding as they
fall.
Jane Frank
Jane Frank (1918 - 1986) was an American artist
that studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist. Her landscape-like, mixed-media abstract paintings are included in some important public collections, including those of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Source:
Wikipedia,
Jane Frank.
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.
Source:
Wikipedia, Abstract expressionism.
Golden rectangle
A golden rectangle
is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio,
one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive
feature of this shape is that when a square section is
removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is,
with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can
be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of
the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
Droste Effect
The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture, one that in heraldry is termed mise en abyme. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever; practically, it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration geometrically reduces the picture's size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing which is the cornerstone of fractal geometry.
Source:
Wikipedia,
Droste Effect.
Geometric Abstraction
Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions.
Jane Frank: "Crags and Crevices" (1961) and Golden Rectangles