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The yellow sky is blocked by a central cloud in the painting. The colors of the sky shift from the realistic towards the abstract with bold colors, to emphasize a spiritual essence. [2] Mondrian would fully transition to Neoplasticism in 1917, and in 1919 said of his transition: I expressed myself by means of nature.
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue is Mondrian's first painting after the publication of this essay, visually representing these ideals by stripping away all recognizable forms of physical objects and even the outlines of individual brushstrokes.
Neoplasticism (or neo-plasticism), originating from the Dutch Nieuwe Beelding, is an avant-garde art theory proposed by Piet Mondrian [a] in 1917 and initially employed by the De Stijl art movement. The most notable proponents of this theory were Mondrian and another Dutch artist, Theo van Doesburg . [ 1 ]
In 1917, Mondrian was one of the founding members of the Dutch art group De Stijl ("The Style"), an abstract movement which sought unification of material and spiritual worlds through pure geometry. Composition with Grid No. 1 , painted in 1918, was an early painting to adopt this style.
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow is a 1930 painting [1] by Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist who was a leading figure in the Neo-Plasticism movement. It consists of thick, black brushwork, defining the borders of colored rectangles. As the title suggests, the only colors used in it besides black and white are red, blue, and yellow.
In the early 1900s, Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) [77] had read the Theosophical literature with great interest, including The Great Initiates [78] by Édouard Schuré. [79] He joined the Dutch Section of the TS in 1909. [5] [80] As Carel Blotkamp stated, "It is abundantly clear that Theosophy was of crucial importance to Mondrian." [81] [note 14]
Mondrian's oval became explicit, framing the work, in paintings that followed over the next three or four years. Apple Tree in Flower , also from 1912, is a similarly sized composition. Though the outline of the "apple tree" recalls that of Gray Tree , the work is significantly more faceted and abstract.