China Ceramics Network News I believe everyone is familiar with the design of dots, lines, surfaces, and three primary colors; Bulgarian studio Brani & Desi made a conceptual design for an apartment, incorporating the artist Piet Mondrian The abstract paintings blend into living spaces, displaying bold primary color tones and evoking emotions of active living.
Jumping between form and color, using white and black as the interval of steps; white is active and black is deep; the design evokes people's feelings and recognition of color through lines and colors.
Piet Cornelies Mondrian (English: Piet Cornelies Mondrian) was a Dutch painter, a pioneer of geometric abstract painting and one of the founders of non-representational painting. He had a great influence on later generations of architecture and design.
Mondrian used geometric figures as the basic elements of painting, founded the "De Stijl" with Desburg and others, and advocated his own art "New Plasticism"; he also believed that art should be fundamentally separated from the external form of nature. The purpose is to express the abstract spirit and pursue the absolute state of the unity of man and God, which is now known as "pure abstraction".
Mondrian was born in the Netherlands. His father was a Puritan and a primary school principal who was passionate about art. The environment exposed him to art from an early age, and religion was the key to inspiring him to change his style.
At the age of eight, Mondrian determined to be a painter and studied painting under the guidance of his uncle Foltz Mondrian, a painter of the Hague School.painter, so Mondrian got the true biography of realistic romance.
Later, when he encountered the First World War, Mondrian signed the "De Stijl Manifesto" which opposed the war and promoted peace and unity; he began to use art to sublimate life, using abstract shapes and neutral colors to convey order and Peace concept.
Break misunderstandings
——“A man who draws grids throughout his life”
Mondrian did not draw grids at first. Instead, he painted nature that he later hated, such as Dutch windmills, churches, and apple trees. The colors are bright and the shapes are accurate. They are so natural that they cannot be more natural.
"Castle Ruins"
Piet Mondrian
The impression of light and shadow in "Willow Forest"
Piet Mondrian
"Scenery of Dunes, Beach and Pier"
Piet Mondrian
However, what subverted his early style is that we have to mention an equally famous man - Picasso; in 1911, this man held a Cubism exhibition in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, fully activating Mondrian's abstract nerve also officially started his journey of subtraction.
Picasso's Cubism is a geometric expression of concrete elements such as triangles, rectangles, and interlocking color blocks. However, Mondrian, who was influenced by Cubism, did not move towards Cubism, but instead reminded him to restore representational reality to The most essential composition: plane, color, horizontal and vertical rhythm and rhythm.
"Dream"
Picasso paintings
Strict constraints
——Character outside of art
Artists, poets, etc., these literary and artistic creators are usually bohemian and out of place in most people's minds, but Mondrian is very different. Even in turbulent times, his personality has always been stable.
Artist Harry Holtzman described Mondrian this way: "He was of average height, thin, bald, and had a big nose. He always wore glasses, which highlighted his deep eyes and an introspective face.< /p>
His clothes are always simple and conservative, and only his eyes and slender hands hint at his identity as an artist. He always speaks slowly, looking for suitable words with a rigorous attitude.
Someone also asked Mondrian: "What were you like when you were young?" He replied: "I have never changed, I was born old." What he means is that he has an old soul.
The emergence of such a character actually comes from the strict family where Mondrian grew up, with a self-restrained, honest and simple Puritan lifestyle. It also influenced his creative style, which is famous for its rationality and minimalism. He constructs pictures through points, lines, surfaces and three primary colors, bringing out a touch of joy in balance without excessiveness.His joy and controlled enthusiasm show his unique personal style.
Weird taste
——Mondrian "No Green"
Mondrian’s red, yellow, and blue can be seen everywhere in the modern fashion world, but there is a strange phenomenon. There is never green in his grid paintings; in this way, it is said that he wants to separate the colors from their natural external forms. Re-deconstruct to give pure meaning; eliminate green, because green is the intermediate color of yellow and blue, a kind of harmony.
Later, Mondrian also hated "nature" to the point of being very paranoid. He would always sit in a corner in a cafe, away from the doors and windows, to avoid the green natural scenery; the "plants" in his room also had their leaves painted pure White artificial tulips.
There were not many paintings displayed in Mondrian's studio, but the furniture was all painted white or black, the wide back wall, and the rectangular arrangements of various colors made it feel like walking into a painting. .....
In 1927, Mondrian described his unique perspective on interior design implemented in his studio (from Piet Mondrian Studio: Paris, London, New York)
Because he advocated using geometric shapes to constitute "the beauty of form", Mondrian's works were mostly composed of vertical and horizontal lines, rectangles and squares, completely abandoning the objective image and life content of art.
Mondrian’s artistic style has endured for a long time. Nowadays, it has gradually extended its modern aesthetic. Dongpeng ART+ also started from this design, integrating the three primary colors of dots, lines and surfaces into ceramic tile products to maximize creative style.
Mondrian
New Plasticism
Dongpeng ART+ design advocates using Mondrian’s geometric abstract art as the design source, leading the modern minimalist style in the ceramic tile industry.
Art is connected. Peter Judson, a designer and illustrator from London, likes to use his mobile phone to capture the details of daily life: the eye-catching mint green doors and walls he sees by chance, the buildings with strange textures, and the random mix and match. Floor tiles...
What’s special is that he used the Mondrian style to simplify objects and fill them into grids of different colors. In the end, these seemingly inconspicuous things turned out to be eye-catching works of art.
In the early days of painting, Mondrian once said: "In the beginning, I was just a realist."
Later, Mondrian dissected the world into many small parts and began to simplify the grid art.
Growing up in a family environment with strict upbringing, Mondrian's unique artistic ideas were inadvertently cultivated. It can be seen that life and art have long been so closely connected.
"Mondrian Self-Portrait"
Piet Mondrian
Mondrian also pointed out: "The arts of the future will be integrated, and the society of the future will be more harmonious and pure."
One of his ultimate goals is to achieve the integration of art and life, and now, it can be said that his dream has gradually come true.
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