Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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seen lately - Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian is one of the artists whose images are universally acknowledged, and leading exponent of Neo. His paintings have been the subject of design for clothing, buildings, vehicles, and everything you can imagine. But Mondrian was initially a realist to reach that pure abstraction in the last 30 years of his career.

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Amersvoort born in 1872 (Holland), son of a headmaster who was painting in an amateur way that used to accompany your child to draw from life in the field and can thus guide their first steps into the picture . His uncle Frits was also a self-taught painter of some success in some circles, and gave him his first lessons on painting. It seems that later after moving to Paris in 1911 had some type of disagreement about the painting, which brought the young man Pieter to reduce its name to Mondrian (why your work is not confused with his uncle ?).
Piet studied to master drawing, but come time to get to teach decided to become an artist. His father could not afford their studies, but his uncle Frits gave him a hand. Fine Arts got its first orders, and soon began experimenting with abstraction in his first exhibition. And got recognition of his fellow artists, but not the critics ("this man is totally confused," wrote one).
in 1909 gives a radical change in his life. Christianity leaves to join a theosophical society founded by Mme. Blavatsky, and begins meditation practices and adopt a lifestyle close to the "hippie." Start your search so the balance of the vertical and horizontal in his painting, in line with their Theosophical beliefs. Years later, will give a new twist existential countryside changing their preferences with those of a perfect city dweller, and the photos of the day you can see and no beard, and wearing ties perfectly.
In 1911 he settled in Paris frequenting most renowned artists of the moment (including the Cubist Picasso , Braque and Gris ). Absorbs some of his teachings, but the end is to combine painting with their thoughts and philosophy. Make several exhibitions, selling several works abroad, but in Paris the thing does not happen so well and lives badly making copies of famous paintings from the Louvre.
In 1914 the First World War broke out that he catches in the Netherlands visiting his father on his deathbed. You have to stay at home until the end of the war, joining in the group "De Stijl (" style) looking for a new society through art, to put man in harmony with the laws of the universe. Today this group is considered the base of Neo that commented earlier. In fact Mondrian wrote a manifesto on the Neo on his return to Paris in 1919. Later
traveled to London and ended his days in New York (1944), with some public recognition, but with little economic success.

posting the work ("Grey Tree" - 1912) is part of a series of three paintings (" Red Tree", " blue tree" and the one you see) which is considered the barrier between and early cubist works, which would become the neo. This tree has always impressed me a lot because an artist like Mondrian who was an expert draftsman, began to evolve into something more surreal but retains all its properties, and very far yet the total abstraction of his later years. Each space between the branches of the table makes an interesting similarity to Cubism, including the color palette used. Small wonder ...

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