This is the first for me, so trying to understand a photographers style and we have to re-create it.
So my understanding is that we try to get photographs like he did..
I did a google search and I am not getting it or it doesn't fit my jive of photography, but I think this will be an awesome thing to learn of other's ways and styles. I never heard of him until now LOL
There are not too many objects that has these kind of colors or patterns so with me not being an artist would it be more of a filter that we can apply to obtain that kind of abstracted style?
"In Paris, Mondrian was introduced to jazz which the black American soldiers who had remained there after WW1 had brought with them, starting a cultural tsunami with the introduction of American bars and with them the Shimmy, the Foxtrot and the One-step. This music epitomised for Mondrian the primacy of rhythm and beat, as opposed to what Janssen called 'decorative emptiness', a term which could apply equally to music and art"
The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that out vital attention fastens more and more on internal things… …Modern man –although a unity of body, mind and soul – exhibits a changed consciousness: every expression of his life has today a different aspect, that is, an aspect more positively abstract.
It is the same with art. Art will become the product of another duality in man: the product of cultivated externality and of inwardness deepened and more conscious. As a pure representation of the human mind, art will express itself in an aesthetically purified, that is to say, abstract form.
Has anyone shared this link? Apologies if it's old hat. I just thought this showed better than many of the others how his style changed - IMO there's way more variety to this challenge possible than the link in the challenge submit would indicate.
//www.pietmondrian.info/mondrian-at-a-glance/mondrian-at-a-glance.html
I like the link you provided Nikki, so I made it click through. In looking at his stuff it reminded me of the line about Woody Allen movies, "I especially like your early, funny ones.” I enjoyed seeing how he got to his iconic geometry, but, you know, I especially like the early prettier ones.
thank you (both Nikki and Brennan) for the link, and I certainly prefer the earlier works, although it is the tiniest move towards the abstract that is tantalizing; I think the last stage must truly appeal to the most spiritually adept, of which I am not one; I do suspect that my wanting to say Sterile, Arid, Dry, Fleshless, misses a possible subtle profundity, but in the end I am more interested in a kind of balancing act - not to be confused with balance.
I like the link you provided Nikki, so I made it click through. In looking at his stuff it reminded me of the line about Woody Allen movies, "I especially like your early, funny ones.” I enjoyed seeing how he got to his iconic geometry, but, you know, I especially like the early prettier ones.
Thanks, Brennan. I know how to do that but completely forgot to do it - something about watching my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter for the last three days and trying to do just about everything with her either underfoot, chattering away, or on my lap :)
Of course the problem with using anything but his last stage work is that the link in the challenge description itself gives the idea that that's all it is - and many of the images that turn up are not Mondrian but works by others "in the style of" him. Most voters will not be following this thread nor will they be doing their own research before voting.
I like the link you provided Nikki, so I made it click through. In looking at his stuff it reminded me of the line about Woody Allen movies, "I especially like your early, funny ones.” I enjoyed seeing how he got to his iconic geometry, but, you know, I especially like the early prettier ones.
Thanks, Brennan. I know how to do that but completely forgot to do it - something about watching my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter for the last three days and trying to do just about everything with her either underfoot, chattering away, or on my lap :)
Of course the problem with using anything but his last stage work is that the link in the challenge description itself gives the idea that that's all it is - and many of the images that turn up are not Mondrian but works by others "in the style of" him. Most voters will not be following this thread nor will they be doing their own research before voting.
You got that right Nikki. This challenge is a bit of a nonsense. There is no "in the style of Mondrian" - why not call a "primary color plus white geometry challenge" or a "parody of Mondrian"
I'm afraid you applied the wrong label Anita. Mondrian could be as boring as Gaudi for instance - meaning that they are so personal that one cannot imitate them, to say it bluntly. They did not create a style. To look quickly at Mondrian or Gaudi for that matter, would mean just looking for a formula.
I'm afraid you applied the wrong label Anita. Mondrian could be as boring as Gaudi for instance - meaning that they are so personal that one cannot imitate them, to say it bluntly. They did not create a style. To look quickly at Mondrian or Gaudi for that matter, would mean just looking for a formula.
Oh that is so well said! I was just thinking the same, but couldn't find the words. Once Mondrian did what he did, there was no point in doing it again. It's so personal. To really do 'in the style of Mondrian' would mean spending years going through the same process of distillation--& every individual would reach their own personal destination.
thank you (both Nikki and Brennan) for the link, and I certainly prefer the earlier works, although it is the tiniest move towards the abstract that is tantalizing; I think the last stage must truly appeal to the most spiritually adept, of which I am not one; I do suspect that my wanting to say Sterile, Arid, Dry, Fleshless, misses a possible subtle profundity, but in the end I am more interested in a kind of balancing act - not to be confused with balance.
I agree. It is the transition to abstraction that interests me.
