1. Artistic Inspirations
Artists who use pattern and colour!
Molen (Mill); Mill in Sunlight, 1908
Broadway Boogie
Woogie his last
work of art
Composition with red blue and yellow
Piet Mondrian, one of the principle artists responsible for twentieth-century
non-objective painting, was born in Holland. He began his career by painting
landscapes. Mondrian then moved to Paris where his close contact with
Cubist ideas reinforced his path from naturalism to abstraction. In 1917 he
was among the founding members of the De Stijl group in Holland, whose
goal was to create a universal art independent of individual emotions by
setting out such general aesthetic criteria as: form restricted to the
rectangle, colour limited to the primaries (red, yellow, blue) and to black,
white and gray and composition formed from perpendicular planes
asymmetrically arranged. To Mondrian the world of the picture was its own
truth-its own "plastic" reality. Colour, line, form, composition, and rhythm,
independent of natural appearances and personal emotions, reveal a cosmic
order. This order in art brought man in balance and with universe, his only
chance to overcome human suffering and unhappiness. In New York he
painted the famous work Broadway Boogie Woogie which shows a
modification of his acetic vision, yet still retains his highly disciplined style
of; primary colours and vertical and horizontal bands. http://www.dropbears.com/
a/art/biography/Piet_Mondrian.html
The Grey Tree
Trees by Mondrian