Striping it down with Mondrian
What’s that, A bunch of squares with a white background?
Gah! I could do that. My two year old brother did that!
Maybe, but I guarantee you he didn’t color in the lines and no one paid millions of dollars for his drawing.
Image a world with no concrete or asphalt sidewalks for skateboards, where the only art that was considered art was either a Landscape, Portrait or an Illustration, no Manga or Power Puff girls existed.
Enter Piet Mondrian. He was born on March 7, 1872 in Amerfoort, Netherlands.
He mainly painted landscapes and trees. In 1911 he moved to Paris to be a cubist, 6 years later he moved to New York and founded the De Stijl magazine and Neoplasticism.
Here is what he painted before his time in Paris.
Here is an example of what he was painting as a Cubist.
Basically he stripped down his color and concentrated on the structure of trees. He turned them into “scaffoldings” for leaves.
After he moved to New York he stripped everything down to it’s most essential parts, colors and lines , and developed, Neoplasticism.
I have to admit, I never thought anything of his work. Then I realized he was the originator of the concept, then it made more sense to me and I started really liking his analytical thinking. Consequently at the same time the electron microscope and the concept of atoms was being discovered.
Mondrian mostly painted with primary colors.
- Mars Black
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Cobalt Blue
Here at Utrecht we provide the colors and the professionals that help you to create your master pieces. So jump on your skate board, and head up to Utrecht and let us help you develop your art into more then just an attitude, we’ll even give you a Utrecht Knit cap to prove your the real thing.
DeLeva