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The post-war Constructivist movement centred on a group of young London-based artists: Victor Pasmore, Adrian Heath, Kenneth & Mary Martin, Robert Adams and Anthony Hill. These artists were interested in creating a completely non-objective art that reflected the new technological era, both in its materials – plastics, sheet metals – and its form, which was structured through mathematical principles of proportion and harmony. For the Systems Group, formed in 1969, the importance of mathematics was taken further – no longer a means of organising elements within a composition, it became the start-point for generating images themselves.
A counterpoint to this systematic art was the hard-edge abstract movement, which although on the surface seems cut from the same cloth, was ordered more by colour relationships and an intuitive sense of balance and proportion. Key artists include Robyn Denny, Richard Smith and Bernard Cohen.
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