Equally important was a simplification of form brought about by the demand for more expeditious production methods.
Further along, the growing simplification of form is played out in earnest in the model for the villa itself and two others, Fallet and Schwob in La Chaux-de-Fonds Chaux-de-Fonds Chaux-de-Fonds
His own deceptively simple, almost naive pictures are the result of an ongoing quest for the abstraction and simplification of form and colour.
Miró's two clay heads, which combine an almost childlike simplification of form with imaginative use of materials and the subtle distortions of a consummate abstractionist, are perfectly realized in three dimensions.
Among his other principal works are several paintings illustrating episodes from American history and a series of Midwestern rural landscapes that communicate a strong sense of American ambience by means of a skillful simplification of form.
She claimed to have found her inspiration in nature, but her paintings — with their radical simplification of form and near abstractness — perhaps owe more to the early experiments in close-up photography of Paul Strand, who was part of the Stieglitz circle and a close friend of hers.
Rather, with its catchy nickname, and gross simplification of form, it's just the latest exemplar of what the architectural critic Owen Hatherley has characterised as the boosterist cliche of creating structures that are simultaneously a logo and an icon.
One very notable group of figures, from Tall al-Asmar, Iraq (ancient Eshnunna), dating from the first of these phases, shows a geometric simplification of forms that, to modern taste, is ingenious and aesthetically acceptable.
In its seriousness and gravity of impression, as well as in its simplification of forms, Laurana's work may be compared to that of Piero della Francesca, whom he may have known in Urbino, since his relative Luciano Laurana, the architect, was active there.
It transcended languages because the ideas are based on a simplification of forms and presented in clean unadorned ways with the objective use of photography and a strong emphasis on striking composition," says Tochilovsky.
