Dandelion_Blood
09-29-2004, 02:03 PM
Well known for his geometric abtract blockes of colour.. did you know there is a real beautiful reason behind it?
Okay, sorry to explode this onto you all but i just had to tell people about it because if you didn't already know you shoulld. Its fascinating and i am so glad that i have choosen him as one of my artists to study in my final A Level year.
I am nicking the stuff i am writing about him for my essay for art to give to you all because its the best way for me to put it!
Extract from my essay (yes we are students dont just dose and paint pretty things we have to write essays too :p ):
"Mondrian was interested into the growth of natural forms, plants. It was as if he was trying to freeze frame an entire life of a plant, or tree (The Red Tree) where he attempts to,
“reflect not simply a tree seen now, but the way it has evolved, has lived, has been formed, and is still in formation, will wither and die.” He is focusing on the entire life of the tree, rather than the one small moment which he is able to appreciate. As if the one picture is telling the life time of that tree. It is designed unlike other paintings of nature, to capture the negatives, the troubles the tree has gone through as well as the harmonies of life. A single painting of one moment on captures the brilliance of the moment and lacks to tell of the suffering that the tree would have been through.
Mondrian felt he could see the forces of the trees flowing out of them; he wanted to capture these forces, to release them “from objects and objectify”. By rendering the object onto the canvas he can begin to understand it in a more simplistic way. The branches of the tree become more than branches, they trace paths, the “growth in space of a tree” that which “were lines not matched in nature” they take on a whole new meaning, beyond nature, beyond their original design. It begins to return to the subject of cubism, these lines in nature are the foundations of geometric abstraction.
His brake into the rectangles of colour allows the picture to appear “self-sufficient”, “infinitely extendable” much like in his earlier pictures of the trees. It is as if he is mirroring their ability to show more than what is on the page, beyond what is seen, giving the feel that the painting “stretches far beyond its borders”. Like the trees do, in that they will continue to grow beyond what you see of them now, into the future and stretching back into the past. It is like any picture, a small part of a bigger picture that stretches beyond the canvas, beyond you and me. Perhaps like time, a tree can represent time in that it has been around for such a substantial amount of time and will continue to grow and expend for many years after."
From this to....
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/mondrian/thumb/mondrian_red_tree.jpg
This...
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/mondrian/thumb/mondrian_line_and_color.jpg
To this..
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/mondrian/thumb/mondrian_gray_lines.jpg
Fascintating and gives it so much more beauty!
Okay, sorry to explode this onto you all but i just had to tell people about it because if you didn't already know you shoulld. Its fascinating and i am so glad that i have choosen him as one of my artists to study in my final A Level year.
I am nicking the stuff i am writing about him for my essay for art to give to you all because its the best way for me to put it!
Extract from my essay (yes we are students dont just dose and paint pretty things we have to write essays too :p ):
"Mondrian was interested into the growth of natural forms, plants. It was as if he was trying to freeze frame an entire life of a plant, or tree (The Red Tree) where he attempts to,
“reflect not simply a tree seen now, but the way it has evolved, has lived, has been formed, and is still in formation, will wither and die.” He is focusing on the entire life of the tree, rather than the one small moment which he is able to appreciate. As if the one picture is telling the life time of that tree. It is designed unlike other paintings of nature, to capture the negatives, the troubles the tree has gone through as well as the harmonies of life. A single painting of one moment on captures the brilliance of the moment and lacks to tell of the suffering that the tree would have been through.
Mondrian felt he could see the forces of the trees flowing out of them; he wanted to capture these forces, to release them “from objects and objectify”. By rendering the object onto the canvas he can begin to understand it in a more simplistic way. The branches of the tree become more than branches, they trace paths, the “growth in space of a tree” that which “were lines not matched in nature” they take on a whole new meaning, beyond nature, beyond their original design. It begins to return to the subject of cubism, these lines in nature are the foundations of geometric abstraction.
His brake into the rectangles of colour allows the picture to appear “self-sufficient”, “infinitely extendable” much like in his earlier pictures of the trees. It is as if he is mirroring their ability to show more than what is on the page, beyond what is seen, giving the feel that the painting “stretches far beyond its borders”. Like the trees do, in that they will continue to grow beyond what you see of them now, into the future and stretching back into the past. It is like any picture, a small part of a bigger picture that stretches beyond the canvas, beyond you and me. Perhaps like time, a tree can represent time in that it has been around for such a substantial amount of time and will continue to grow and expend for many years after."
From this to....
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/mondrian/thumb/mondrian_red_tree.jpg
This...
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/mondrian/thumb/mondrian_line_and_color.jpg
To this..
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/mondrian/thumb/mondrian_gray_lines.jpg
Fascintating and gives it so much more beauty!