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In the book in the form of questions and answers pulled down 30 pictures - from the "Annunciation" by Fra Angelico to the "King of the Zulus" Basquiat. For the initial reading - the most it.
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Composition with red, blue and yellow
1930. Oil on canvas. 45 x 45 cm Art Museum, Zurich, Switzerland. Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan) 1872, Amersfoort, near Utrecht - 1944, New York

This is a picture? And what there to watch?

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Yes, of course, the picture - though not quite normal. Many artists choose to everyday life instead of something more interesting and attractive, and then we see the magnificent scenery, ceremonial portraits, scenes of fantastic creatures (dragons, etc.). Sometimes the artist chooses to present the world more simple than it is. This is what Mondrian.

What this picture represents?

Nothing definite. However, she encourages the viewer to think about the intentions of the artist. Suppose he did not want to portray ready, finished things, and showed that from which they could gather or build. It's like a game, when some of the colorful pieces are something that we wanted ...

Perhaps the artist could not draw from this?

Not so! Mondrian was a perfect master, and drawing and painting, he clearly knew how to draw "properly" and did that for many years. But that does not satisfy him - he was looking for something else. Slowly he removed his pictures from all that seemed superfluous and unnecessary. At some point on the canvas only three colors and straight lines - and the result is quite satisfied the artist.

Mondrian painted on the line?

Quite possibly. This is strictly calculated, carefully crafted picture. He vymeryal distance using strips of transparent paper, outlined a line of charcoal and then took up a brush.

Red, blue, yellow ... Why those three colors?

This is a very important color. Mixing them in different proportions, you can get a lot of other - green, purple, orange, and an infinite number of shades. But at the same time themselves, these three colors from the other form can. Why they are called primary colors.

There is still black and white

No black and white can not make the color darker or lighter. Black lines are organizing now, dividing the space into rectangles, varying in size, elongated vertically or horizontally. The white inserts create a feeling of emptiness, light, air them easier to breathe. Multicolored rectangles saturated with color energy. For example, red may be associated with fire, blood, sunset ... Black lines give the image stability, keep it in balance.

It turns out that line and color replace Mondrianu characters

The artist really drives them into communion. There is a sort of dialogue - they either argue or agree with each other. For example, a red square is so powerful and heavy that he could break out of the picture: it seems it can not be stopped, especially since the top and right it is not holding back even a black frame. But the horizontal segments of black (top left and bottom right), which are increasingly the rest of black lines, introduced in now if on purpose in order to keep the red square on the ground. They seemed to say to him: "Stop!" Were it not for these short black segments, it is unknown what else to perpetrate unruly red ...

Why is the picture circled in general is not a black line?

If the artist has introduced a line, it would turn into a fence and locked the picture tightly. Mondrian does not close the space - it holds all the colors in a free state, not limiting our field of view. The doors are open - we can move through the picture as you wish: to enter into it, slide on it, go out when he wants ... After studying painting as it should, we can be more clearly imagine the space in which are themselves, and forms that surround us.
In a sense, is training for the eyes and mind.

The picture is similar to the plan of the apartment

Indeed, there is something in common. Any construction begins with a plan - for example, in terms of show apartments, where they should go through the wall as the room will be located, for clarity, paint them in different colors ... The plan (or project) clearly represents what we want to see in the result. By Mondrianu, painting in general - the embodiment of intelligent design and stability.

Perhaps this is a house in the section?

It is quite possible: imagine a building that is demolished. The front wall has been destroyed, the internal layout of the house became available in sight ... We see what was once the rooms, and in the wake of painted walls or wallpaper preserved can guess, where there was a bedroom, where the living room or nursery. In these empty boxes was not one life ... Mondrian certainly not once seen such scenes, and could feel the city as a pure form.

And maybe, city map with streets and avenues ...

Perhaps it is also true. Around these shapes can be seen from the bird's-eye view, no indication of the scale or size of the no. By the way, many years after the creation of this painting (and others in the same vein) Mondriaan was in the U.S. and came to a complete delight from New York. Composition of the city, with an extensive network of streets intersecting at right angles, was remarkably similar to his paintings. This world of the artist once felt like his.

All the paintings of Mondrian resemble each other

Yes, his paintings are based on the same principle, pointless, but the ratio of colors and proportions of the bands and rectangles in each of their work. Some of the white occupies almost all the space, and the canvas seems easy and serene. On the other lines are as thick as the bars of the prison bars, and the picture is depressing - from her just want to run. Using the most simple means, the artist is able to arouse the audience the widest range of feelings. He works as a composer, who with the help of seven notes creates an infinite variety of melodies. No wonder my painting called "Composition".

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Yes, perhaps, from a technical point of view it is not so difficult. But there is another, higher level of complexity associated with meaning. Imitate the external style of Mondrian - is one, but put yourself in the place of the artist, back in his time, through what he experienced - quite another. Mondrian has spent many years trying to develop his own style. And today, when we look at it now, we must not forget that in this piece, so deceptively simple in form, is a whole set of ideas, thoughts and aspirations that led to its creation. It is no exaggeration to say that this work life.

In the picture there is something mechanical

Such an impression is created by geometric shapes - especially the first, cursory glance at the picture. It immediately felt the severity of design, but upon closer examination you can see, and something more: for example, strokes on the black bands - they seemed a little twitch ... Hence, the hand of the artist is not so firm: it is also susceptible to emotions. It turns out that the line is not just methodically and consistently applied to the canvas - they actually intersect. Mondrian, as a weaver of threads, creates one fabric of his work. We seemed to see the canvas under a microscope, differences in weave hidden from the foundation of painting.

How do I sell these paintings?

Sell them was not easy. Non-figurative paintings of Mondrian did not enjoy great demand: for lovers of intellectual painting was little. Nevertheless Mondrian stubbornly went his own way: the only way he could express himself to the end. And to earn the artist wrote to still lifes with flowers - the flowers sold very well. This allowed him to retain his world, full of straight lines and pure colors - a world that belonged only to him. And today, we appreciate it is non-figurative compositions of Mondrian, and flowers, which he once fed, safely forgotten.

Mondrian's ideas have penetrated into our present life!

Creativity Mondrian had an impact not only on the next generation of artists, but also to architects and designers of later periods. Now, sixty years after his death, this influence is evident everywhere: in the interiors and furniture, book and magazine graphics, advertising, fashion. His paintings carried in itself a moral intransigence, balance, stability, multiple versions of copyright geometric compositions indicate tireless artistic quest. Ideas Mondrian absorbed imperceptibly, at the subconscious level. For example, a logo for a fashion line of hair care L'Oréal »(L'Oreal Studio Line) is clearly suggested by the compositions of Mondrian. Along with the formal characteristics of his paintings on the future buyer implicitly act as ethical and aesthetic principles of the artist. And if your company's logo will be associated with purity, energy, constant update, the proprietary products will be successful in the market. In the effectiveness of these funds easier to believe if their advertising is all what's so appealing work Mondrian: discipline, proportionality, a sense of rhythm, boundless freedom combinations ...