What is Geometric Art?

Regia Marinho
Finding RegiaArt
Published in
4 min readSep 28, 2019

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For the art lover.

Geometric art is the use of one or several geometric shapes, meant to create a visual sensory experience. The art is abstract, futuristic, and often colorful, portraying the created shapes in ways you never imagined possible.

Abstract art 2004 Regia Marinho.

Geometric art is an artistic movement created in the early 20th century by artists with a fascination for geometric shapes.

Geometric Art is created using geometric elements, shapes… Geometric art is inspired by geometry.

Geometry is a branch of mathematics related to the shape, size, and relative position of figures.

Geometric shapes are made by humans. Geometric shapes refer to geometry.

Several abstract art movements and tendencies originated from geometry.

In the 20th century, Constructivism and Suprematism began in Russia.

Concrete Art was founded in Europe in the 1930s and went to Latin America. This is abstract art that had an emphasis on planes and color.

And in America in the 1960s we had minimalism.

What do we use geometry for? To draw and create shapes, objects, etc.

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Regia Marinho
Finding RegiaArt

I write about ideas, technology, the future and inspire the world through art. https://regiaart.com