Piet Mondrian

Neo-plasticism: The belief that artists shouldn't express the perceivable in nature or environment, But that pure art exist when absolutes are expressed. Mainly horizontal and Vertical lines, primary colours, all in flat planes with shallow space (unless you count the reds and striking hues which sort of jumps out at you)

And this is SUPPOSE to express order of the Universe and human condition. As opposites (horizontal and vertical lines) neutralises and annihilates each other to make it a constant equilibrium.


Piet Mondrian
INFLUENCED BY:
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect)
~ Offered a liberating vision of a practically designed world.
- M.H.J. Schoenmaekers (Dutch mathematician & Theosophist)
-Fauvist (bright colours)
-Van Gough’s colour
-Seurat rhythmic brushstrokes-war years caused him to seek harmony‘universal
-Metropolitan NY, universal values and industrialization consciousness’
~ “New Image of the World” (1915)

Art freed from subjectivity = Art that was the expression of the universal
unchangeable truth.



-Dusk(mood, Dutch, preoccupation with linear forms and patterns, horizontal and vertical)
-Windmill in the sun (expresses light using only primary colours)
-Pier & the Ocean
(+ &- signs like dikes out of rhythmic ocean)
-rhythm with black lines (tension, go beyond canvass)
-nyc (weaving, optimism there, sure hope of victory over tyranny)
-Lozenge pictures, metaphysical, archaic

De Stijl
-reject the visual world and pure spiritual, complex and intellectual concerns
-straight line, right angle and primary colours
-systemetic and rational
-pictorial surface
-Neo-plasticism in modern archi, interior, furniture, typography)