Introduction: Piet Mondrian is very famous artist from the 20th century, he was born in the Netherlands on March 7, 1872. Mondrian had some great influences at a very young age to introduce him to the world of art, his father and his uncle Fritz Mondrian. One of Mondrian favorites spot to draw was along the Gein River when he was growing up. Before he became famous for his works of art he was a teacher in primary education and while he was in his teaching years he practiced his painting, which consisted of mainly landscapes (2). Mondrian was influenced by the rise of Cubism and that is when he really started to produce all of his paintings using a grid-like format, painting squares and rectangles of mostly solid colors (1).Mondrian has
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Mondrian’s work went towards the pointillist and cubist type style of work, he used that and other abstract mediums as he grew in his initial part of his career. His paintings are supposed to represent his emotions and not the subject though his happy times to the depressing ones.
(Subject Matter) Piet Mondrian wanted to reflect the purist form in his art in order to purify the spirit (4). He painted straight lines both vertical and horizontal which is on a grid canvas in this painting to show purity. He used white type appearance squares and rectangle to form his backgrounds, these shapes only appear white though in actuality they are a hint of grey. None of his paintings have a pure white background. The thickness of the lines in this painting is representing the balance between the …show more content…
He based things off the shape of a square, he said if you fold a square in half you would get two rectangles and if you fold them at the corners you would get triangles and this process would continue. This particular painting and the other painting he did in this time frame are asymmetrical, there is one shape that is large and red with the surrounding shapes of yellow, blue and grey to balance it further (2).
Interpretation:
Composition II with Red, Blue and Yellow from Mondrian’s perspective was to show purity and sobriety (3). The Red square is only bounded with two lines and represents to Mondrian that anything can be reach. It also means that there is no boundary to those sides so it could grow indefinitely. Mondrian doesn’t hold his emotions back when he paints, the only problem is how you interpret what he is trying to say. I believe he is proving to himself and the world that everything is special in their own ways. Something as simple as a square to as technical to a human life.
Mondrian’s work went towards the pointillist and cubist type style of work, he used that and other abstract mediums as he grew in his initial part of his career. His paintings are supposed to represent his emotions and not the subject though his happy times to the depressing ones.
(Subject Matter) Piet Mondrian wanted to reflect the purist form in his art in order to purify the spirit (4). He painted straight lines both vertical and horizontal which is on a grid canvas in this painting to show purity. He used white type appearance squares and rectangle to form his backgrounds, these shapes only appear white though in actuality they are a hint of grey. None of his paintings have a pure white background. The thickness of the lines in this painting is representing the balance between the …show more content…
He based things off the shape of a square, he said if you fold a square in half you would get two rectangles and if you fold them at the corners you would get triangles and this process would continue. This particular painting and the other painting he did in this time frame are asymmetrical, there is one shape that is large and red with the surrounding shapes of yellow, blue and grey to balance it further (2).
Interpretation:
Composition II with Red, Blue and Yellow from Mondrian’s perspective was to show purity and sobriety (3). The Red square is only bounded with two lines and represents to Mondrian that anything can be reach. It also means that there is no boundary to those sides so it could grow indefinitely. Mondrian doesn’t hold his emotions back when he paints, the only problem is how you interpret what he is trying to say. I believe he is proving to himself and the world that everything is special in their own ways. Something as simple as a square to as technical to a human life.