Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930
Oil on canvas, 45 x 45cm
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Piet Mondrian, Composition No. VI, Composite 9 (Blue Facade), 1914
Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 68 cm
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Piet Mondrian, Composition Trees II, 1912
Oil on canvas, 98 x 65 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Piet mondrian, The Grey Tree, 1912
Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 109.1 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Piet Mondrian, Avond (evening), Red Tree, 1908
Oil on canvas, 70 x 99cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
7 comments:
At first They become duller in colour but sharper in line work and then bolder and sharper. They become less detailed towards end.
First picture unrealistic very bright colours, all primary colours and black, simplifying colour in a different way.
Grey less detail, can still see it is a tree, may not see it straight away but once told it is seen and makes sense.
Cannot see the trees, composition based on trees, purpose not to capture the image of a tree but what it is to make a picture and for a picture to still exist. Most cubist. Looks like Picasso or Braque.
Does not look like a tree but it is probably based off a tree due to his history. The title says this is based on composition no interest in reality cares only for a good composition.
Had to progress to get complete abstraction. Oil paint. Red dominating biggest section, red advances forward to eye. Forcing eye to look at whole thing. Kinda like Eugene deli qua except Mondrian is looking at the composition entirely not as a tool. Simplistic, not texture, squares and rectangles, no subject matter. Huge philosophical step. Completely about art.
Difference between representation and symbolism. Representative art is a simplistic drawing of a tree. The word tree is symbolic as it does not look like a tree. Representation needs no explanation, symbolism does.
By Phoebe Bennett
Piet Mondrian
The older paintings have more detail than the newer ones. It appears Mondrian has developed his style by removing any unimportant details until it is a number of squares and only the colours are left, taking up a similar amount of space to what the colours originally did.
Colours are simplified down just as the shapes get simplified. The first artwork consists of primary colours only
The second one looks more cubist-like and is greyscale this time. The artwork has been simplified once again.
The next artwork is very similar to Picasso and Braque's work. There focus is on the composition of the artwork. A lot of the shapes in the work are vertically elongated as trees are.
This artwork does not look like a tree anymore. The composition is made to be like a tree, but it does not look like it at all. I really can't see much about the tree in it.
Suprematism
8 rectangles all stretched in the same direction. They are grouped into the middle of the work and all the same colour; red. It does not appear to directly be an artwork of anything. None of them are perfectly square. None of them are parallel (thanks Brittany) none of them are touching, all going to the top right. Moving in the same direction. Symbolises progress. Red = common, everyday human. Everyday people "have the control" or are moving forward. Ordinary people of Russia are progressing.
Red square. Strawberry cream lolly? Not perpendicular. Wonky. Red is symbolic of everyday common person. Original idea of communism was the idea of peasants and common people having the power to make the world better
Two different artists, two different cultures, two different countries, two different reasons. Very similar art style.
Carissa Saul
Progression of Mondrian De Stijl's style: moves away from detail to pixelated images.
They completely removed colours
Mondrian De Stijl Has not removed colours but he has focused on primary colours.
Instead of simplifying down to black and white he simplifies down to primary colours.
Mondrian De Stijl Is exploring what it is to be a painter, and is using cubism to do that.
Hasn't completely left nature behind. Still painting trees.
Composition Trees 2 best resembles Picasso's work.
Jono
Exploration of art
Detailed>completely abstract
The tree art you can tell is a tree
His art gets more box-like, squares
Sharper
Colour>grey to simplified colour
Exploring what it is to be a painter. Cubism
Composition based on trees, what parts do we need for a picture to exist. No colour, just shaped and lines. Most broken down like Braque and Picasso.
Tree? Seen in the development in history
Based on composition, not reality.
Small traces of nature.
Making eye move around the whole picture, always drawing eye back to the red. Base colours. Squares/rectangles. Completely flat. No subject matter. The subject matter is art. Rhiannon
Culture based
8 Rectangles, not all straight, seem to be random positioning, not parallel, flat no sense of perspective, not touching, pointing upward to the right, symbol of progress. Communism. Red symbolic to everyday people having control. Russian people heading in a forward direction.
Top right hand corner 'pulled'
Red square
Almost identical to last painting
Everyday people, peasants able to be equal to have power.
Rhiannon
Mondrian - De stiji
- it looks more detailed and as they go up they become more abstract and simple in a way.
- he uses the primary colours
-it's unrealistic
- it's abstract
- progressing through the ideas of simplifying things down
- he is using cubism as his main influence
- he's still painting trees
- the third one is the most cubism kind of artwork.
- he's less interested in nature now
- your eyes get drawn to the red first.
- he's forcing our eyes to move around so we can see and take in the whole picture.
- he uses only squares and rectangles, no texture, smooth.
Suprematism with eight rectangles
- White background
- eight rectangles on the page
- the rectangles aren't straight
- the rectangles are red
- 2d painting. It's flat
- none of the lines are touching
- all of the are heading up to the right
Red square
- the red symbolising the every day person
- oil on canvas
- 1915
- the red square isn't and even square (the top right corner is pulled out a bit)
- your eyes got to the red first then to the top right corner where the square is being pulled out a bit.
Jonathan rubino
Mondrian - the style
It went from abstract colourful tree to a grey tree, to grey boxes, to colourful boxes, to sharp lines and bright full colours.
1. Primary colours. Simplified. Tree
2. Grey scale, even more simplified, cubism. Tree
3. Still trees but in title, it's a composition of tree, doesn't really look like trees, what do we need for a picture to still exist. Most cubist.
4. Composition still tree but doesn't at all look like a tree. Blues and beiges. Based on composition not nature. Smallest traces of nature.
5. He had to go through the other things to get to this point. Red stands out the most, then white/blue. Forces your eyes to go everywhere like a normal painting.
Gets rid of everything but composition
The difference between symbolism and representation.
Representative art looks like a the thing. Eg a drawing of a tree. Don't need to understand the language.
Symbolism doesn't. Eg the word tree. Need to know the culture the language
Emma Wooden
Mondrian - De Stijl
Piet Mondrian
His idea is not to communicate a certain meaning hut discover what really makes a painting
The 'Red Tree' is more intricately detailed yet abstract and by the 'Composition II' it's squared and there is no specific detail
Took almost thirty years
It's abstract
It's unrealistic
Use of primary colours simplifying the colours in a different way
Progressing through the idea of simplifying things down
Using cubism as his main influence
Hasn't completely left the idea of copying things
He is still painting trees and this is told by the title 'Composition Trees II'
Purpose is not capturing the tree but what is that make a picture. What part of a composition do we need for a picture to still exist?
Something Braque and Picasso would do
The next step of development within his artwork 'Composition No. VI Composite 9 (Blue Facade)'
Shows composition and he's aiming for what is successful in composition, removing reality
He had to progress into other things to come into a finalisation of 'Composition II'
Red dominates the artwork which becomes the focus of the composition
He's forcing our eyes to look at the whole artwork
Use of squares and rectangles, and no texture - completely smooth and flat
There's no nature left in it and completely about art
LUCY PARK
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